The founder of Other Worlds and more than a dozen international organizations and networks, Beverly is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Beverly has worked for more than three decades as an organizer, advocate, and writer in collaboration with social movements in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.S. Her focus areas are just economies; democratic participation; and rights for women, indigenous peoples, and other excluded peoples. In addition to hundreds of articles, reports, and book chapters, Bev authored Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance, which won the PEN-New Mexico Award for the Literature of Social Justice, and Birthing Justice: Women Creating Social and Economic Alternatives. A new book, Fault Lines: Views Across Haiti's New Divide, is forthcoming in June 2013.
**Check out the Fault Lines website: www.faultlinesbook.org.**
To see Beverly Bell & Other Worlds' self-published books, check out:
Harvesting Justice: Transforming Food, Land, and Agricultural Systems in the Americas (www.harvesting-justice.org)
Birthing Justice: Women Creating Economic and Social Alternatives (http://www.otherworldsarepossible.org/birthing-justice-report)
Who Says You Can't Change the World? Just Economies on an Unjust Planet (http://www.otherworldsarepossible.org/other-worlds/who-says-you-cant-change-world)