Lisa J. Shannon is an American author, human rights activist, and speaker known for her work in the international women's movement, including founding Run for Congo Women, co-founding Sister Somalia with Fartuun Adan Abdisalan, co-founding and serving as CEO of [https://www.everywoman.org Every Woman Treaty]. She is author of ''A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman'' (Seal Press, 2010). Her second book, ''Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen: An Ordinary Family's Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo'' (Public Affairs, 2015), follows one family's struggle for survival in the shadow of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army.
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Lisa J. Shannon is an American author, human rights activist, and speaker known for her work in the international women's movement, including founding Run for Congo Women, co-founding Sister Somalia with Fartuun Adan Abdisalan, co-founding and serving as CEO of [https://www.everywoman.org Every Woman Treaty]. She is author of ''A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman'' (Seal Press, 2010). Her second book, ''Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen: An Ordinary Family's Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo'' (Public Affairs, 2015), follows one family's struggle for survival in the shadow of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army.
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