Anna Baltzer is a Jewish American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, and a granddaughter of Holocaust refugees. She is a frequent volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service, where she documents human rights abuses in the West Bank and supports the nonviolent movement against the Occupation. She has spent most of the past few years in Palestine or on tour with her book, WITNESS IN PALESTINE: A JEWISH AMERICAN WOMAN IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES.