INNOSANTO NAGARA was born and raised in Indonesia, and moved to the United States in 1988. After studying zoology and philosophy at UC Davis, he relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he worked as a graphic designer for a range of social change organizations, eventually founding Design Action Collective, a worker-owned cooperative design studio in Oakland, California. He lives in a co-housing community and teaches martial arts at a collectively run dojo. The author and illustrator of six books for children, Nagara’s first book, A is for Activist, is credited with starting the movement in social justice book publishing for children. His other books are Counting on Community, My Night in the Planetarium, The Wedding Portrait, M is for Movement, Oh, the Things We're For! and, with Mona Damluji, Together.
