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Lisa Silvestri likes to think, write, and teach about war, peace, politics, social justice, digital culture, democracy, and civic life. She has contributed to several popular outlets including The Washington Post and The New York Times and has spoken at The 92nd Street Y and The South by Southwest Festival. Her scholarship appears in journals like New Media & Society, Memory Studies, Visual Communication Quarterly, The International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Rhetoric and Public Affairs. Her first book, Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American War Zone, won the James W. Carey Media Research Award in 2016 for pioneering cultural approaches to the study of social media. In 2017 she received $100,000 from The National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her community-based initiative, Telling War, which helped surface and inspire Veteran voices through a variety of story forms. Her latest book, Peace by Peace: Risking Public Action, Creating Social Change, is an uplifting and personal exploration of peace as an artful, mischievous, and life-giving civic practice.