Jana Laiz

Jana Laiz, educator, author, and activist, has been aiming to change the world one book at a time. Alongside teaching English to immigrants and refugees, her writing career revolves around topics such as climate change, history, animal welfare and equal rights. She is the first and current writer-in-residence at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead. Her novel, Weeping Under This Same Moon and her co-authored novel with Ann-Elizabeth Barnes, A Free Woman on God’s Earth: The True Story of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, The Slave Who Won Her Freedom, are currently in development for film.