WIRED ICON Edward Snowden, NSA whistle-blower NOMINATES Malkia Cyril, Founder of the Center for Media Justice, cofounder of Media Action Grassroots Network October 2018. Subscribe to WIRED.Plunkett + Kuhr DesignersPeople generally associate the word radical with extreme. But I prefer to think of the word in reference to its Latin origin:radix, the root of the issue. My friend Malkia Cyril is a radical in the truest sense of the word.

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