Ann Medlock is a writer and activist who founded the Giraffe Heroes Project, a
nonprofit that encourages people to stick their necks out for the common good
and trains them in doing so successfully. She writes the Project’s website, its
Facebook page, and many of its materials for students. She’s now working with
new affiliates, Giraffe Heroes/Europe and Giraffe Heroes/Argentina.
In her eight decades, she’s been a freelance writer, an award-winning public
radio commentator, an editor at Macmillan, and speechwriter to US political
figures and to the Aga Khan. She's active on Facebook and her personal writing
includes Arias, Riffs & Whispers, a book of poems, and Outing the Mermaid, A
Novel of Love, Fear and Misogyny. She’s currently writing an online memoir,
Building with Christopher Alexander.