Rivera SunAuthor/Activist Rivera Sun sings the anthem of our times and rallies us to meet adversity with gusto. Rivera lives in an earthship house in Taos, New Mexico, where she grows tomatoes and bakes sourdough bread in an adobe oven. She has red hair, a twi sister, and a fondness for esoteric mystics. Everything else about her - except her writing - is perfectly ordinary. She is the author of four social protest novels, The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, The Way Between and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars, as well as nine theatrical plays, two books of poetry, and this study guide. For five years, Rivera was the cohost of Occupy Radio and Love and Revolution Radio, and cofounded two nationwide nonviolent study and action group networks. She is the past Program Director for Pace e Bene/Campaign Nonviolence. Her essays on social justice are syndicated by Peace Voice and have appeared in hundreds of magazines. She has crossed the country many times speaking and teaching workshops on writing, social, environmental and economic justice and the role of strategic nonviolent civil resistance. She went to Bennington College to study writing as a Harcourt Scholar and graduated with a degree in dance. After six years working as a professional playwright, choreographer, and director in the San Francisco Bay Area, she founded the nationally touring Rising Sun Dance & Theater company. In 2010, Rivera Sun wrote and performed a trilogy of solo theater shows entitled The Freedom Stories of Lala that received coast-to-coast standing ovations. Rivera loves to hear from readers and is easy to contact on Twitter, Facebook or through her website at riverasun.com Read More Read Less