King, Mary Elizabeth

Mary Elizabeth King is an expert on nonviolent political strategies and worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as a student. She is a professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University for Peace of the UN and a Distinguished Scholar at the American University Center for Global Peace in Washington, DC. She is the author of Freedom Song (which won the RFK Memorial Book Award) and Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Power of Nonviolent Action. King lives in Washington, DC, and Oxford, England.