Kathy Kelly

Kathy Kelly grew up on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, and became a school teacher. In 1995 she helped found "Voices in the Wilderness," a Chicago-based group dedicated to circumventing the sanctions imposed upon Iraq. Made many trips to Iraq to deliver medicines and humanitarian aid, in violation of the sanctions. A war tax refuser, she has been arrested and jailed many times for non-violent acts of protest against U.S. policies. Arrested five times for the crime of planting corn on nuclear missile silos! Twice nominated for Nobel peace prizes.