Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is an American novelist, short story writer and journalist whose fiction and literary non-fiction includes The Far Side of the Desert, Burning Distance, regional bestseller The Dark Path to the River, the short story collection No Marble Angels, and PEN Journeys: Memoir of Literature on the Line.
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a Vice President of PEN International and has served as the International Secretary of PEN International and Chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee.
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman was born Joanne Leedom in Dallas, Texas, daughter of Joanne Shriver Leedom and John Nesbitt Leedom.
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is the senior editor and contributor to The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate.
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman currently serves on the boards of the International Center for Journalists, Refugees International, American Writers Museum, and Words Without Borders and is a member of the advisory board of the Edward R Murrow Center at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the ICRW Leadership Council.
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a former member of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Advisory Board.
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is an emeritus Director of Human Rights Watch where she chaired the Asia Advisory Board.
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman has served on the Board of Trustees of Save the Children and on Save the Children's advisory board on Global Education.
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a member of the Chairman's Advisory Council of the United States Institute of Peace, and she was an advisor for the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, which aired in two parts in September 2000.
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Texas Institute of Letters, PEN America, English PEN, and the Authors Guild.
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman has taught creative writing at Empire State College of State University of New York, Lehman College of City University of New York, New York University, Occidental College and The University of California at Los Angeles Extension.