Katherine Bullock received her PhD in political science from the University of Toronto (1999). She is a writer, lecturer, publisher, and mother. Her books include: Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves, and Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes, which has been translated into Arabic, French, Malayalam, and Turkish. Over the last few decades she has co-founded and sat on the boards of several grassroots and academic organisations. Originally from Australia, she embraced Islam in 1994.