Born in Chicago in 1979, Melody Moezzi grew up mostly in Dayton, Ohio amid a strong and vibrant Iranian-American diaspora. She is a writer, speaker, activist, columnist, author and attorney. She is also the Executive Director of the non-profit interfaith organization, 100 People of Faith; the founder of Hooping for Peace, and a United Nations Global Expert as part of the UN Alliance of Civilizations. Moezzi’s first book, War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, earned her a Georgia Author of the Year Award and a Gustavus Myers Center for Bigotry and Human Rights Honorable Mention.

Moezzi is a commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and for Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Georgia Gazette. She was a contributor to Montel Across America on Air America Radio and is a blogger for the Huffington Post and Ms. Magazine. She has made regular appearances on CNN and has also appeared on BBC, the Laura Ingraham Show, the Mike O’Meara Show, as well as many other radio and television programs. She was a columnist for Muslim Girl Magazine and has written for many other publications, including the Washington Post, NPR, CNN.com, Parabola, the American Bar Association’s Student Lawyer, Dissident Voice, American Chronicle, and the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. Moezzi is also a columnist for bp Magazine, the premiere North American trade magazine regarding bipolar disorder.

Moezzi has worked as a corporate and non-profit consultant and attorney. She has also worked with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reporting to the U.S. Congressional Commission on International Religious Freedom. She has served as a federal congressional intern for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and an intern on health and human rights at The Carter Center.

Moezzi gives regular lectures and seminars on a multitude of topics, including Islam (especially Islam in America), Iran, diversity, law, human rights, as well as public health, with a particular focus on mental health related issues. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Emory University School of Law, as well as the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.

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