"I probably can't untangle anymore what comes first. But when I think about God and my faith, the powerful thread that runs through all of that is a God of justice— a God who loves justice, a God who loves the most vulnerable"

— Kurt Ver Beek, ASJ Co-Founder

"Hopefully it can inspire someone. I think we try to be human. It isn't like we're superheroes. We are people who had a calling [...], and even in the midst of suffering, we decide to keep moving forward."

— Carlos Hernández, ASJ Co-Founder

Ross Halperin attended Harvard University, worked on Wall Street, led a campaign to reconstruct the library in his hometown, and worked under Mark A.R. Kleiman, one of the world’s leading criminal-justice scholars. He started reporting Bear Witness in 2018 and has since spent much of his time in Honduras.



His publicist is Peter Miller at Liveright; his literary agent is Farley Chase; his film & TV agent is Sean Daily; and if you’d like to contact him directly, through the below form, he will do his best to respond.