Beverly Bell Bio

Beverly Bell, Coordinating Committee Member and Program Coordinator: The founder of Other Worlds, Bev is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Education Coordinator for the Other Worlds Are Possible Giving Circle, and board member of Just Harvest. Bev has worked full-time for 27 years as an advocate, organizer, analyst, and writer in collaboration with justice movements in Latin America, the Caribbean, southern Africa, and the United States. Her foci have been just economies, democratic participation, gender justice, and human rights. She has co-founded and/or co-coordinated more than a dozen international campaigns, organizations, and movements. Most recently, Bev served for seven years as founding director of the Center for Economic Justice. In addition to dozens of articles and book chapters, Bev – who will also be writing Other Worlds’ book - has published Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance (Cornell University Press), for which she received PEN-New Mexico’s Award for Social Justice in Literature.

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