Whistleblower of the Week

Bradley Birkenfeld was born in February of 1965 in a household where his mother was a nurse/housewife, and his father was a neurosurgeon. He had two older brothers and remembers a childhood full of sports and friends in Brookline, Massachusetts....

A whistleblower is like a tall oak tree. Retaliation against a whistleblower is pouring poison on the roots of that oak tree. The tree's ecosystem is shocked and deeply affected by the poison, and it spreads slowly, inexorably, to surrounding...

Blake Percival knows what it is like to have it all and lose it. He knows what happens when you stand on your integrity and have to pay an enormous price. Percival believes in the strength of character, and he...

Austin Handle is the all-American boy next door, well educated, smart, articulate, and sincere. Handle is a Captain America Doppelgänger. He is not for defunding the police but is for common sense community policing. His views resonate with a strong...

Frank Serpico was born on April 14, 1936, but believes his real birth date was February 3, 1971, when a bullet pierced his head and changed his life forever.  Betrayal is a theme that runs underneath most stories that Serpico...

Jhonna Porter did not know what a whistleblower was or what it meant when it was her time to tell the truth.  She was not looking for the label, did not even know whether it was a good thing or...

Sherron Watkins was raised in a town of 6,000 people, Tomball, Texas.  A town where she was surrounded by adults who believed their actions mattered.  It was interesting, Watkins noted, that the three female whistleblowers on the Time cover of...

Lorenzo Davis spent 23 years in the Chicago Police Department (CPD), retiring in 2004.  Davis, besides police work, wanted to be a lawyer, and at the prime of his life, as a Sergeant, pursued and captured a law degree in...

Reality Leigh Winner (inmate number 22056-021) is currently incarcerated at the Carswell Federal Medical Center, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, Texas, 76127.  She is an Air Force veteran, and later, became a federal NSA contractor.  Winner disclosed to the Intercept,...