Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence,
(www.vcnv.org) a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare.  As a co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, she helped form 70  delegations, from 1996 - 2003, that openly defied economic sanctions by bringing medicines to children and families in Iraq.   Kathy and  her companions lived in Baghdad throughout the 2003 "Shock and Awe" bombing.

More recently, she has visited Gaza, (during Operation Cast Lead, Jan 2009)  and Pakistan, (May-June, 2009), writing eyewitness accounts of war’s impact on civilians.

Kathy was sentenced to one year in federal prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites (1988-89); she spent three months in prison, in 2004, for crossing the line at Fort Benning's military training school.

She and her companions at the Voices home/office in Chicago believe that non-violence necessarily involves simplicity, service, sharing of resources and non-violent direct action in resistance to war and oppression. As a war tax refuser, Kathy hasn't paid federal income taxes since 1980.