William Cooper is a cybersecurity attorney and award-winning journalist. His writings have appeared in hundreds of publications around the world including The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times, Dallas Morning News, Huffington Post, Toronto Star, and Jerusalem Post. Publishers Weekly calls his writings about American politics “a compelling rallying cry for democratic institutions under threat in America.” Visit him online at Will-Cooper.com. Michael McKinley is a journalist, author, and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books, and his most recent, Willie: The Game Changing Story of the NHL’s First Black Player was named Top 20 Books of 2020 by the CBC, and nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award. His novel, The Penalty Killing, was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award as best debut crime novel, and his Amazon Kindle thriller Facetime was a bestseller. For TV and Film, his most recent projects are Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell, as cocreator and co-executive producer of the three-part series for NBC Peacock and SKY UK, and Our Lady of Staten Island, a feature documentary he wrote, produced and directed. As a journalist, he has written for The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, Vancouver Sun, National Post, Saturday Night Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, Food & Wine, New York Observer, New York Daily News, Politics Daily, Washington Post, The Players Tribune, America Magazine, and has won national news and magazine writing awards. He is a citizen of Canada, Ireland, and the United States and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Please see www.libertayo.com for a digital sampling of McKinley’s work.
