Shahram Vahdany is founder and administrator of Modern Writers Community and Managing Editorial at MWC News Magazine. He is a writer/poet and long time activist.

He lives in Vancouver, B.C. Canada

Sheldon Richman is editor of The Freeman, published by The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York, and serves as senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is the author of FFF's award-winning book Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's Families; Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax; and FFF's newest book Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State.

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Will Durst  five-time Emmy nominee and host/co-producer of the ongoing award winning PBS series "Livelyhood" is also a regular commentator on NPR and CNN, and has appeared on every comedy show featuring a brick wall including Letterman, Comedy Central, HBO and Showtime, receiving 7 consecutive nominations for the American Comedy Awards Stand Up of the Year. Hobbies include the never-ending search for the perfect cheeseburger, while his heroes remain the same from when he was twelve: Thomas Jefferson and Bugs Bunny

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William A. Cook, MWC News Magazine senior editor, completed his Ph.D. at Lehigh University from which he also received his Master's degree. He spent many years in academic administration as Department Chair, Dean, and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

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