Civil Rights Activist and Writer Kit Bakke Discusses Books and More

Kit Bakke, a native Seattleite, knows that successful democracies are built on informed and principled dissent. Before college, she was part of the rowdier wing of the 1960s antiwar movement where she participated in lots of antiwar and civil rights demonstrations, lived in communes, tripped on LSD, went to jail in Chicago, visited Cuba in 1969, and was part of the Weather Underground. Her FBI file, which she has donated it to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, is over 400 pages long. Currently, writer Kit Bakke is a wife, a mom and a grandma, a retired pediatric oncology nurse, a traveler, a reader, and an activist. https://kitbakke.com/

Radio host and author Laura Moe spent most of her working life as a librarian and English teacher in central and Southeastern Ohio, but has recently moved to Seattle where she writes full-time. Moe is the author of YA novels PARALLEL LINES (Fat Cats, 2015) and BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA (Merit Press, 2016, ) named by the New