Lola Vollen is a physician specializing in the aftermath of large-scale human rights abuses. She has worked with survivors of systemic injustices in Somalia, South Africa, Israel, Croatia, and Kosovo. With Physicians for Human Rights, she developed Bosnia’s mass grave exhumation and identification program. She is the founder of the Life After Exoneration Program, which assists exonerated prisoners in the United States after their release. She is also a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies and a practicing clinician.

Dave Eggers is the editor of McSweeney’s and the author of three books, including How We Are Hungry and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and the winner of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a journalist, his work has appeared in the the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, the UK Guardian, and other publications. His first book of oral histories, Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers—coedited and -written with Daniel Moulthrop and Nínive Calegari, appeared in July of 2005. During 2004-2005 he taught at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and with Lola Vollen, he is a founding editor of the Voice of Witness series.

Surviving Justice is a collaboration between McSweeney's and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

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