Anne de Graaf

Anne de Graaf (born 1959)^[1] is an American-born Dutch academic, diversity advocate and is the author of over 80 books, with 5 million sold worldwide.^[2] She has won the International Historical Fiction Christy Award in 2000 for Out of the Red Shadow, the final book of her Hidden Harvest series,^[3] and the East European Christian Children's Book Award in 2007 for Dance Upon the Sea.^[4] Anne de Graaf currently teaches Human Rights and Human Security; and Peace Lab at Amsterdam University College^[5] and serves as the Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Amsterdam.^[6][7]

Anne de Graaf was born in San Francisco, graduated from Stanford University, and received her PhD in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews.^[8] Her doctoral thesis, Speaking Peace into Being: Voice, Youth And Agency in a Deeply Divided Society^[9], focused on the impact of the youth in post-conflict nations. Anne has lived in Ireland and the Netherlands with her husband and their two children.^[10] Besides her work as an author, lecturer and Chief Diversity Officer, de Graaf has also worked as a journalist for the Dutch National Press Club, and as an economics translator for the Dutch government.^[10] She is a member of the British Society of Authors in London and the Rotary Club Westland-Polanen in The Netherlands.^[10]