Author Biography

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, author and attorney. Her 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 has also appeared on CNN, BBC, the Montel Williams Show, the Mike O'Meara Show, the Laura Ingraham Show, as well as many other radio and television programs. She has written for the Washington Post, NPR, the Huffington Post, Parabola, the American Bar Association, Dissident Voice, Muslim Girl Magazine, American Chronicle, and the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, among many other publications.

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, as well as an intern on health and human rights for The Carter Center.

Moezzi gives regular lectures and seminars on a multitude of topics, including Islam (especially Islam in America), Iran, diversity, law, women's and human rights, as well as public health, with a particular focus on mental health related issues.