About Brett

Brett Wilkins is a San Francisco-based writer whose work focuses on issues of war and peace and human rights.

Brett was a longtime freelance journalist and essayist whose articles appeared in a wide variety of print and online publications including Antiwar.com, Asia Times, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Insider, The Jakarta Post, Mondoweiss, teleSUR, and Venezuela Analysis.

He was a member of the leftist writers’ group Collective 20.

Brett’s Common Dreams articles are regularly re-published by media outlets including Salon.com, AlterNet, Truthout, Raw Story, and Z Network. His work has also been re-published by a wide range of organizations from the United Nations to the World Economic Forum, and by members of both houses of U.S. Congress including Sens. Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley, and Elizabeth Warren, and Reps. Barbara Lee and Ro Khanna.

Brett, who is Black and Mexican (or “Blaxican”), grew up adopted in a Jewish home in rural southern New Jersey. When not writing or organizing, he enjoys traveling, running, reading, and collecting old books—especially ones about the struggle for racial justice and the history of US imperialism. He has lived in four countries and in California since 1999.