About the Author

Mike Farrell currently serves as co-chair of Human Rights Watch in California, president of Death Penalty Focus and as member of the advisory board of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. He was a founding board member of Peace Studies, ATV, and inmate-developed alternatives to violence program at Augusta Correctional Center in Virginia. After a trip to Bosnia and Somalia, Farrell was named Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Farrell was one of the lead actors on the hit show MASH and starred in the television drama Providence.