Alireza Ramezani-Amameh is an Iranian journalist and a lecturer of communication and journalism at Damavand Azad University. As well as his native Persian (Farsi), he speaks English. Based in Tehran, his areas of interests are social and political issues, business and political economy of media.

Aditi Charanji is an Indian freelance journalist based in the UK. She is bilingual in Hindi and English, and has published articles in national dailies in Bangladesh and India. Aditi has also worked as a teacher for underprivileged children in India. Her areas of interests are women's issues, race and ethnic relations, history and politics.

Hollie Clemence is an undergraduate at Cardiff University, where she is studying English Literature and Cultural Criticism. She is currently researching sexuality and race in women's magazines, and is planning to work as a journalist when she finishes her degree in June 2007.

Rachel Curtis is working towards an MA in International Journalism at Cardiff University, and will publish research on British think-tanks in September of 2008.  She has worked in France and Ecuador and is fluent in three languages. She plans to work as a journalist in southern California in 2009

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Alana Jelinek was born in Australia and lives in London. She is an artist and a theorist and writes on art and politics. Her latest artwork is the invention of the 'metacorporation', BLACCXN. The art editor for altvoices, Alana has worked at the British Museum, Tate Modern and Oxford Brookes University.

Dr John Jewell is lecturer at Cardiff School of Media, Journalism and Cultural Studies. His main research and teaching interests include the representation of asylum seekers and refugees in the British media and the history and development of propaganda and mass persuasion.

Izzy Kaminski is a British freelance writer with an international background. Bilingual in English and Polish, she writes about street art in the UK, globalisation and metal music. Izzy is currently focused on Eastern European emigration and the influence of big business in the UK. She is UK editor of altvoices.

Yasuhiro Kunimori is a Japanese photo-journalist and a member of the UK-based photo agency, Exile Images. Yasuhiro specialises in conflict and poverty, and has reported from Iraq, Somalia and Sudan. The December issue of altvoices featured some of his most powerful work. More examples can be found on Yasu's website.

Freelance journalist and translator, Kari Larsen was born and raised in Norway and now works in the UK. She speaks Norwegian, English and German and writes regularly about pharmaceuticals for APM Health Europe.  Kari also writes about social issues, religion and international politics.

Heather Li's most recent work, an investigation into the lives of Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong, appears in December's altvoices. Heather is also interested in the hidden side of the fashion industry, animal rights and grass-roots politics. She is based in Hong Kong and is trilingual in English, Cantonese and Japanese. 

Polyp lives and works in Manchester, England, as a political cartoonist, activist and prop builder. He has a monthly cartoon strip in the New Internationalist and his most recent book is Big Bad World. In December 2006, altvoices published a series of Polyp's If Ordinary People Behaved Like... cartoons.

Portia Reyes is a UK-based Filipino freelance journalist. She previously worked in corporate communications and multimedia publishing. Portia is interested in education and media development, particularly in the Philippines. Other interests include SE Asian current affairs, social culture, migration and diasporas.

Hans Rothgiesser has worked as a researcher and author specialising in environmental economics. He has also published comic books and produced short films. Hans currently lives in Lima, Peru where he works promoting social responsibility projects. Hans speaks English, German and Spanish. 

Pilirani Semu-Banda is a journalist contracted by the USAID as Media Specialist for Casals and Associates in Malawi. As a freelancer, Pilirani has won both local and international awards, including the Africa Education Journalism Award. She has also been voted Malawi’s best female journalist twice.

Amer Shomali is a Palestinian artist and works as multimedia designer at Birzeit University and ZAN Studio in Ramallah, Palestine. He uses art and technology to create political cartoons and short animation films to support local and international political campaigns.

Nina Skyum-Nielsen is a freelance journalist based in Copenhagen. She has worked in the Danish media since 2001 and specialises in international politics and women’s rights. Fluent in five languages, she has translated more than 1,000 newspaper articles and four books into Danish. Nina is Northern Europe editor for altvoices.

Bingying Wang was born and raised in China. She is currently studying at the postgraduate course MA International Journalism in Cardiff University. She is particularly interested in working conditions of women and young people, and is planning to work as a journalist when she finishes her degree in September 2008.

Philip Wiggenraad is a Dutch freelance journalist based in London. Raised and educated in the US, Phil's interests lie in American politics and its portrayal in the media, in particular on Fox News.  His first contribution to altvoices - published in December 2006 - took a critical look at the war on drugs in the US.