Dana Frank is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Labor Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of many books, including Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, which examines the banana workers' unions of Honduras, and Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, The Nation magazine, and many other publications and scholarly journals. For the past five years she has been researching the history of the AFL-CIO's Cold War intervention in the Honduran labor movement. Since the June 28 coup, she has spoken widely in the media, in the U.S. and beyond, on the situation in Honduras.

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