Keynote Speaker

Ann Jones
Author of "Kabul In Winter"

Ann Jones traveled as an international journalist and photographer. You may have seen her articles and photographs, dispatched from every continent and many remote areas of the world, in magazines and newspapers such as National Geographic Traveler, Outside, The Nation, or the New York Times. In the late 1990s, she journeyed across Africa in search of a rain-making queen and produced Looking for Lovedu (2001), a classic travel tale with a difference: an eye for social justice.

Trained to teach English as a foreign language, Ann Jones often worked as a volunteer among Spanish-speaking migrant farm workers in the U.S. After 9/11 she went to Afghanistan, again as a volunteer, to teach Afghan high school English teachers and to advocate for women’s rights. She wrote about her experiences there in Kabul in Winter.

Ann Jones Bio