Anita Anand is a development and multi-media communications specialist, writer and water colour artist. She has worked as a policy analyst in Washington DC, and was Director of the Women’s Feature Service, an international service of development writing by women journalists, in Italy and later in India. She has been travelling to Afghanistan since 2004, working with UN agencies and international and national civil society organisations. She is the author of The Beauty Game and co-editor of World Social Forum: Challenging Empires and Whose World is it Anyway? The United Nations, Civil Society and the Multilateral Future.