Cliff DuRand dị afọ 71 ugbu a. A mụrụ m na mba ụwa nke atọ nke dị na North Dakota, USA. Ruo afọ 40, akụziere m nkà ihe ọmụma mmekọrịta ọha na eze na Morgan State University dị na Baltimore. M bi ugbu a n’ebe etiti ugwu Mexico dị na San Miguel de Allende. Ebe a bụ m onye na-eme nchọpụta na Center for Global Justice nke m na-arụkọ ọrụ na 2004. Ndị na-ahụ maka ikike obodo kwadoro m na mmalite 1960s. Abụ m onye malitere isi SDS na Mahadum Johns Hopkins n'oge opupu ihe ubi tupu Port Huron (m wee dee akwụkwọ nyocha Ph.D. na Participatory Democracy.). Na Mahadum Black Morgan nke akụkọ ihe mere eme, abụ m onye ndụmọdụ ngalaba na otu ndị na-akwado ụmụ akwụkwọ na ndị na-akpata nsogbu na ngalaba ahụ. N'afọ ndị 1970, arụrụ m ọrụ na otu ndị enyi US na China ma gaa na Peoples Republic of China ugboro anọ. Nke a mere ka m bụrụ onye nta akụkọ China maka akwụkwọ akụkọ Guardian (US) ruo mgbe ọ dara na mmalite 4s. Na 1990, abụ m otu n'ime ndị ọkà ihe ọmụma 1982 US bụ ndị sonyere na ọgbakọ mbụ na Cuba kemgbe mgbanwe n'etiti ndị ọkà ihe ọmụma US na Cuban. Ebe ọ bụ na 6 m ahaziri ma duru njem mmụta kwa afọ na Cuba maka ogbako nke US na Cuban Philosophers and Social Scientists na Mahadum Havana www.cubaconference.org . N'afọ 1982, abụ m onye nkwado nke Radical Philosophy Association www.radicalphilosophy.org ma jee ozi dị ka Secretary-Treasurer ruo afọ 13. N'afọ ahụ, ahazikwara m otu ndị radicals na Baltimore ịzụta ụlọ ọbá akwụkwọ ọha na-enweghị ohere ma gbanwee ya na Progressive Action Center, ebe obibi maka ndị ekpe ruo afọ 22. E rerela ụlọ ahụ ugbu a yana ego enwetara iji nye onyinye maka mmemme na-aga n'ihu na Baltimore. N'afọ 2004, akwagara m Mexico ebe anyị guzobere Center for Global Justice, ebe nyocha na mmụta na South South. www.globaljusticecenter.org M na-ahụ Reimagining Society Project dị ka a bara uru mmekorita ịzụlite na oru a ezi uche ọhụụ nke otú na ebe anyị (Left, US, nke atọ World) nwere ike na-aga iji ohere ugbu a meghere site aku na uba nsogbu nke neoliberal zuru ụwa ọnụ capitalism. Echiche m ga-eweta na mkparịta ụka bụ nke Participatory Democracy.