Craig Brown and his late wife, Lina Newhouser, founded Common Dreams in 1997. Formerly a community organizer and political consultant, Brown has managed many progressive state referenda, local, Congressional and US Senate campaigns. Brown managed the campaigns of former US Rep. Tom Andrews (D-ME) and served as Chief of Staff to Congressman Andrews. In 1991, Brown and Andrews helped co-found the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Brown, a news junkie since childhood, provides the vision for Common Dreams and directs the editorial content and daily operations. Twitter: @Craig_Brown. Email: Julia Conley began her journalism career on PBS's weekly news analysis show Bill Moyers Journal, first as a production assistant and eventually producing interview segments for veteran journalist Bill Moyers. She also worked for over two years as a producer on Al Jazeera America's daily news broadcasts, and later on documentary films focusing on issues including the roots of the American opioid crisis and the history of white supremacy in the U. S. She has written for the quarterly women's magazine A Women's Thing, and joined the Common Dreams staff in 2017.
In addition to his role as the opinion editor, he works daily as newsroom manager. Twitter: @jonqueally Kenny Stancil is a staff writer at Common Dreams. Originally from Denver, Kenny moved to Tacoma to attend Pacific Lutheran University, where he earned a degree in political science and global studies. He later pursued graduate study in geography and earned an MA in secondary social studies education from the University of Kentucky. Prior to joining Common Dreams in 2020, he taught civics and history at a public high school and worked as a GIS analyst in Lexington. Long passionate about fighting against the scourge of inequality, Kenny developed his disdain for neoliberalism while studying political economy in Chile as an undergrad. Twitter: @kenny_stancil Brett Wilkins is a staff writer at Common Dreams. Based in San Francisco, Brett specializes in issues of war and peace and human rights. In addition to writing for Common Dreams he is a member of Collective 20, an international socialist authors' group featuring movement leaders including Noam Chomsky and Medea Benjamin.
Lina co-founded Common Dreams in 1997 with her husband, Craig Brown. Lina passed away in 2008 after battling non-Hodgkins lymphoma.