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Melody Moezzi

Author, Attorney, Activist, UN Global Expert

Melody Moezzi is an activist, attorney, speaker, commentator and award-winning author. She is also a United Nations Global Expert and an Opinion Leader for the British Council’s Our Shared Future initiative. She is the author of Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life and War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, which earned her a Georgia Author of the Year Award in 2007. Moezzi is a blogger for The Huffington Post and Ms. Magazine, and a featured columnist and blogger for bp [Bipolar] Magazine. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Christian Science Monitor among other outlets. She has also appeared on many radio and television programs, including NPR, PRI, CNN, BBC and others. Moezzi is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Emory University School of Law, as well as the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. She lives in Raleigh, NC. For more information, please visit www.melodymoezzi.com and follow her on Twitter (@MelodyMoezzi) and Facebook (facebook.com/melodymoezzi).