Clare Hanrahan is an Asheville, N.C. author, activist, organizer and speaker who has been participating in and reporting on direct action events throughout the Southeast U.S.A. for decades. Hanrahan was raised in Memphis and has lived and worked for peace and justice in Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida. She served a six-month sentence in Alderson Federal Prison in 2001-02 for peaceful protest at Fort Benning, Ga. She is author of Jailed for Justice: A Woman's Guide to Federal Prison Camp, Conscience & Consequence: A Prison Memoir, and her autobiography: The Half Life of a Free Radical: Growing up Irish Catholic in Jim Crow Memphis.