Ishmael Beah is the author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, which has been nominated for a Quill Award in 2007. Beah was pressed into becoming a child soldier in Sierra Leone at the age of 13 after the death of his family. He has spoken at numerous conferences including at the United Nations and at the Global Young Leaders Conference in 2007. He currently works for the Human Rights Watch Children’s Division Advisory Committee and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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