Shaazka Beyerle is a researcher, writer and educator in nonviolent action, focusing on anticorruption, accountability (including linkages to governance, development, and violent conflict), and gender and nonviolent action. She is a Senior Research Advisor with the Program on Nonviolent Action at the United States Institute of Peace. From December 2015 to June 2017 she was the lead researcher for a World Bank-Nordic Trust Fund project and co-author of the subsequent report, “Citizens as Drivers of Change: Practicing Human Rights to Engage with the State and Promote Transparency and Accountability. In 2016 she was visiting professor at the University for Peace (Costa Rica). She’s the author of Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice, and Freedom from Corruption: A Curriculum for People Power Movements, Campaigns and Civic Initiatives.