Wanda Krause grew up in the north of Canada in Whitehorse, Yukon. She then traveled extensively and completed a PhD in politics, University of Exeter, UK. In the places of travel, she has now studied hundreds of activists and has participated alongside some. She also studied spirituality and integral thinking. She strives to meld the two paths of politics and spiritual practice in hopes of bringing consciousness and enthusiasm to activism.
She has taught in public policy on planning and strategic management from an integral systems approach and was previously founding coordinator of a Masters program in Qatar; senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London; and research fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK. Wanda is the author of Women in Civil Society, New York: PalgraveMacmillan; and Civil Society and Women Activists in the Middle East, London: I.B. Tauris. She is also a Kosmos journal ambassador. Visit Wanda online at: www.spiritualactivismonline.com.