Meredith Tax is a writer and political activist. Author, most recently, of A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State, she was founding president of Women’s WORLD, a global free speech network of feminist writers, and cofounder of the PEN American Center’s Women’s Committee and the International PEN Women Writers’ Committee. She is currently board chair of the Centre for Secular Space and lives in New York. For more information, visit www.meredithtax.org.