David Barsamian, author, lecturer, and investigative journalist, is the founder of Alternative Radio, an independent and award winning weekly radio series based in Boulder, Colorado, now in its 30th year. He has authored books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad, Howard Zinn, Tariq Ali, Richard Wolff, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. He is the recipient of the Upton Sinclair Award, a Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Fellowship and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center. He has collaborated with the world-renowned Kronos Quartet in New York, London, Vienna, and elsewhere.