Ralph Lopez is co-founder and director of Jobs for Afghans, a citizens' advocacy organization dedicated to Afghan-led, bottom-up development in Afghanistan.  He is a freelance journalist and blogger who has published in the Boston Globe and the Baltimore Sun, as well as online at Alternet.org, Consortiumnews.com, AfterDowningStreet, and many other online journals.  He filmed and produced the independent documentary film "Afghan Marshall Plan: Winning with Job not Guns."  He is a graduate of Yale Unversity.