The Body International Inc. Team

Syran Warner- Editor
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Syran Warner wrote stories at the alternative weekly City Pages in Minneapolis for over 12 years. Loves working with enthusiastic writers, talking about basketball, and watching old episodes of Dateline before bed.

Jim Baker- Senior Advisor to the Editor.
San Diego, CA, USA

Jim Baker once produced an art installation that served as a physical and symbolic funeral for Pepe the Frog that took place in a world renown museum. He’s, “seen some shit.” Woof.

Connie Coppersmith- Copy Editor
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Connie Coppersmith is a filmmaker and art school snob with a love story that there’s only one of. She is working on something remarkable and is very polite when something just doesn’t work. Superhero.

Lisa Mildred- Writer
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Lisa Mildred is writer, comedian, and podcast host with a deep interest in cults. She’s shot assault rifles with the moonies and made a trip to visit militant rastafarians. Also, she’s hilarious. Her debut at TBI was a two part Story about Amish immersion.

Jade Justice- Writer.
Knoxville, TN, USA

Jade Justice is a true-crime blogger, freelance writer and working on her first book. When not researching and writing, she enjoys spending time with her family and dog at their home in Tennessee.

Loserhands- Artist
Melbourne, australia

Loserhands is a visual artist from australia who makes surreal, irreverent profiles documenting culture through her unique and often hilarious lens. When TBI need an artist down under she was our first choice and she killed it when we asked her to make portraits of cult members.

Vibedoubt- Artist
New York, NY, USA

Vibedoubt is a street artist from New York City. His art has been featured in Juxtapose Magazine and on walls and train cars all over the country. He doesn’t have any pets.

Amethyst Rhodes- WriteR
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Amethyst Rhodes is an investigative journalist and world traveler of mystical proportions. She lives in Brooklyn New York, where she strength trains for the impending apocalypse, daily. Her passions include global philanthropy and fare evasion on the MTA. She has a profound Scorpio Midheaven and is liked almost exclusively by dogs and children.

Jahera- Artist
Nairobi, Kenya

Art was and still remains to be my first best friend.

Stewart Lawrence- Writer
Washington D.C. USA

Stewart Lawrence is a Washington, DC-based journalist specializing in public and consumer health and lifestyle trends . Since 2010, he has published numerous articles on the growth of the American yoga industry for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch. His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Guardian, and Inside Philanthropy. He obtained a BA in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1985 and an MA in international affairs from Columbia University in 1989.

More contributors coming soon…

Posey Parker- Journalist, Copy Editor
Portland, ME, USA

Posey Parker is a media producer who has worked across the United States in radio, television, print and on the internet of course. Systemic abuse of children and vulnerable adults is really, really bad, so she has no problem working with an Unorthodox publication if it will help anyone escape a Shitty situation.

Spore- Research
New Jersey, USA

spore is a religious studies student at an ivy league college on the east coast. she’s who we found to interpret religious texts of a cult called the body. If it weren’t for her we’d still be clueless about the most important texts in our catalogue. She likes to forage mushrooms and write her own music.

Maddie F- Writer
Long Beach, CA, USA

Maddie F is a professional SEO writer with a deep fascination with True Crime and Cults. She once lived in a neighborhood in Japan where a member of Aum Shinrikyo was busted which deepened her passion for these types of Stories. Maddie originated a story about the Heaven’s Gate website that became “Left Alive And Unchanged,” The most popular article in TBI history.

Verity Lopez- Features Writer
SE, International

Verity Lopez lives with her husband Fred and their cat Tiddles in a house, in a city. She is obsessed with investigating the psychology and tactics of cultic abuse and influence. She is starting to write about her experiences in Sukyo Mahikari, not only to process her own experiences, but also to inform and warn others about this little-known group.

Jamo Lorswal- Writer
Austin, TX, USA

Jamo Lorswal began writing songs in high school, plays in college then met a young aspiring writer he wrote a novel with. He also works on screenplays. as a practicing journalist Jamo has written for The Oakland Post, The FRank Report, Texas Hemp Reporter and THe Body International. He’s is presently studying naturalopathy.