Joanna Brooks

 

Joanna Brooks is a national voice on Mormon life and politics and an award-winning scholar of religion and American culture. Her memoir The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from An American Faith is available now at amazon.com. She also covers Mormonism, faith, and politics for ReligionDispatches.org and has been named one of “50 Politicos to Watch” byPolitico.com.

A twenty-year veteran of the Mormon feminist movement, Brooks grew up in a conservative Mormon home among the last great orange groves of Orange County, California. She attended Brigham Young University and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

She has been featured on NPR, BBC, Interfaith Voices, and Radio West. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and Killing the Buddha, and she has been utilized as a source on contemporary Mormonism by the New York Times, Reuters, Salt Lake Tribune, Washington Post, Salon, BBC Sky News, New America Media, Pittsburgh Gazette-Post, The Tennessean, Headline News Network, Fox News, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, and the Deseret News.

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