Eyes On Trade Author Biographies

Sarah Edelman is the State and Local Program Coordinator for Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. She conducts strategic education and outreach campaigns to state and local officials about the implications of trade agreements for state regulatory authority and local control. Before joining Global Trade Watch, Ms. Edelman collaborated with grassroots community organizations as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador and as an Americorps VISTA volunteer in North Philadelphia to launch community education programs and small business projects. As a paralegal at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, she advocated for the rights of low-income Philadelphia utility customers. Ms. Edelman also worked as a freelance producer for Radio Times, a public-affairs program at National Public Radio affiliate station WHYY. Ms. Edelman speaks fluent Spanish and received a B.A. in History from George Washington University.

Bill Holland is Deputy Director for Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. Before joining Global Trade Watch, Mr. Holland was Midwest Field Director for the Apollo Alliance, an effort to end America's dependence on foreign oil and create millions of high-wage jobs. During the 2004 Iowa caucuses, Mr. Holland led the Iowa Fair Trade Campaign, gaining commitments from all Democratic candidates for President to define their vision of a better American trade model, including opposition to the then-proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. Before this, Mr. Holland was the Grassroots Organizer with ForestEthics, where he helped gain a landmark commitment from Staples, Inc. to protect endangered forests and dramatically increase their sale of recycled paper. Mr. Holland was also Lead Organizer for Green Corps, the Field School for Environmental Organizing. Mr. Holland graduated from Grinnell College with a B.A. in Political Science.

McKenzie Millar is a Trade and Financial Researcher for Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division. Ms. Millar's background is in human rights protection, including work with the Save Darfur Coalition and Citizens for Global Solutions. She has also served as Research Analyst for The Justice Project, providing research and policy analysis to improve the criminal justice system. Ms. Millar also has a background in the labor movement, working as a Research Assistant for American Rights at Work, a nonprofit organization that protects workers' rights to organize. She earned an M.A. from George Mason University's School of Public Policy and received B.A. degrees in both Political Science and Sociology from the University of Virginia.

Todd Tucker is research director with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, based in Washington, DC. His work focuses on the legal, economic and political implications of the WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and other trade agreements, and also on U.S. foreign policy issues.

Tucker is a frequent media commentator on international economic and policy issues who has been cited and published by radio, print and Internet outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Nation magazine, Foreign Policy in Focus, and others.

He is originally from Louisville, Kentucky, by way of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prior to joining Global Trade Watch, Tucker served as a policy analyst at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.

Lori Wallach is the director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. A Harvard-trained lawyer, Wallach has promoted the public interest regarding globalization and international commercial agreements in every forum: Congress and foreign parliaments, the courts, government agencies, and the media. Described as "Ralph Nader with a sense of humor" in a Wall Street Journal profile, "the Trade Debate's Guerrilla Warrior" in the National Journal, and "Madame Defarge of Seattle" by the Institute for International Economics, Wallach has testified on NAFTA, GATT-WTO, and other trade issues before over 30 U.S. congressional committees, numerous other countries’ legislatures, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Wallach’s work in "translating" arcane trade legalese – indeed, entire proposed international commercial agreements – into relevant, accessible prose has had significant national and international impact.

Brandon Wu is a development and program associate with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. He splits his time between grantwriting and research, and is also Global Trade Watch's resident Web tech and designer and blog administrator. Wu came to Public Citizen by way of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, before which he graduated from Yale University having studied sociology and international development. He originally hails from trade-ravaged central North Carolina.

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