Erik Bean holds a master’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University, and he also holds a doctorate in education with sanctioned research interests in cultural competence, leadership and mental health. A section editor of The Journal of Leadership Studies, John Wiley & Sons, he also is founder of the Ethan Bean Mental Wellness Foundation, a Michigan 501(c)3 public charity. Because mental health issues have adversely affected his family and so many around him, he is passionate about helping others. This lifelong effort includes the 2019 award-winning Ethan’s Healthy Mind Express: A Children’s First Mental Health Primer and the self-help series 20/20 Prudent Leadership. In 2018 Erik had presented a unique paper to suggest legislation and other social media policies to help offset a growing number of fake internet ads masquerading as news at the Oxford 2018 Internet, Policy, & Politics Conference. At that conference he learned that some people will share social media posts without vetting them to get a political candidate elected. As recently as 2020 he discovered some people in his own social networks were sharing unvetted information and spreading false narratives. The idea to write Bias Is All Around You: A Handbook for Inspecting Social Media & News Stories soon unfolded and came as a result of the misinformation associated with the 2020 U.S. election, the pandemic, and much uncivil unrest.