Alida Brill is a feminist social critic and a civil liberties activist. She is the author of Nobody’s Business:  The Paradoxes of Privacy (1990); and co-author of the landmark book, Dimensions of Tolerance: What Americans Believe About Civil Liberties (1983). She is the editor of A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide (1995). Her writing appears in popular and professional periodicals and journals and on webzines.  She has been a featured speaker at a variety of conferences for more than twenty-five years, and a guest lecturer at many universities and colleges in the Unites States and abroad. A frequent contributor to anthologies, her longer essays and monographs include: “Tomorrowland at 40: Lakewood, California,” in Rethinking Los Angeles (1996); “From the Shards,” in To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11 (2002). Her forthcoming book is Dancing at the River's Edge: A Patient and Her Doctor Negotiate a Life With Chronic Illness (Schaffner Press, Inc./January '09 www.schaffnerpress.com), a dual memoir, written in collaboration with her physician Dr. Michael D. Lockshin.