Johanna MarkindJohanna Markind is both a writer and an attorney.She spent five years with the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.. Prior to that, she was in private practice in Philadelphia and served as a member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, representing indigent defendants in federal criminal cases. She has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Forward, and the Federal Lawyer, among other outlets.
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Bahareh Hedayat is a human rights activist who has spent over six years in an Iranian prison for "insulting" Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and for "actions against national security, propagation of falsehoods, mutiny and illegal congregation." Hedayat is the longest serving female prisoner of conscience in Iran.
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