Diane Wilson

Diane Wilson comes from the fishing village of Seadrift, Texas, where she was one of the rare girls who went out on the family boat to shrimp with her father. After she married and had five children, her oldest daughter said it wasn’t that uncommon to see her mother stirring something on the stove with one hand while reading Gandhi with the other.

Wilson started out as an activist on the behalf of the San Antonio Bay, but she has since found her voice as an international activist, as the instigator of new organizations like CodePink Women for Peace and as an author of "An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas (Chelsea Green, 2005)."

Her new book, "Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus," about her experience growing up in a Pentecostal family, will be out this fall (2008).