Anne de Graaf

Anne de Graaf (born 1959)[1] is an American-born Dutch academic, diversity advocate and is an award-winning 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,[3] the final book of her Hidden Harvest series,[4] and the East European Christian Children's Book Award in 2007 for Dance Upon the Sea.[5] Anne de Graaf currently teaches Human Rights and Human Security; and Peace Lab at Amsterdam University College[6] and serves as the Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Amsterdam.[7][8]

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.[9] Her doctoral thesis, Speaking Peace Into Being: Voice, Youth And Agency In a Deeply Divided Society[10], 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.[11] 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.[11] She is a member of the British Society of Authors in London and the Rotary Club Westland-Polanen in The Netherlands.[11]