Biography

Melody Moezzi is an Iranian-American writer, activist, attorney and award-winning author. She is also a United Nations Global Expert with the UN Alliance of Civilizations; a member of the British Council's Our Shared Future Opinion Leaders Network, and a member of the U.S. State Department's Generation Change initiative. 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 is a blogger for The Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine and Bipolar Magazine. She has made many appearances on CNN and has also appeared on the BBC, the Laura Ingraham Show, the Mike O’Meara Show, as well as many other radio and television programs. She was a contributor to Montel Across America on Air America Radio; she was a columnist for Muslim Girl Magazine, and she is a featured columnist for Bipolar Magazine.

Her writings have appeared in many publications, including The Washington Post, the Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, CNN.com, Parabola, the American Bar Association, and the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. Her pieces have also appeared in many international publications, including Al Arabiya, the Gulf Times, Hürriyet, The Straits Times, the Malta Independent, the Guatamala Times, the Botswana Guardian, the Brunei Times, and the Jakarta Post.  

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 also served as a federal congressional intern for former Representative Tony P. Hall 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, Iran, human rights, and public health, with a particular focus on mental health. 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. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, cat and the occasional fish.

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