Hinda Mandellis a professor in the School of Communication at RIT in New York, where she was the director of the university's journalism program from 2020-2024. Mandell is editor of this volume,Global Craftivism since the Pussyhats: Handcraft Responsesto Violence, War, Illness and Isolation; editorCrafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats(Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); co-curator and co-editor ofCrafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism(RIT Press, 2019); a co-editor ofNasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election(University of Rochester Press, 2018); the author ofSex Scandals, Gender and Power in Contemporary American Politics(Praeger, 2017); and co-editor ofScandal in a Digital Age(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). As a journalist, her work has been published inPolitico,The Boston Globe,The Chicago Tribune,The LA Times, among other publications. An avid DIY'er who loves to unleash creativity in others, Mandell is the founder of her university's annual Zine Fest. Her scholarly inquiries into collaborative handcraft as change-agents have been published inCraft Research, theJournal of Urban Cultural Studies, and forthcoming in theJournal of Feminist Scholarship. She is on the international advisory board of theJournal of Craft & Communitiesand on the editorial board theInternational Journal of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles, and her research has been funded by the Center for Craft and Fiber Art Now. In 2020 she was a guest artist with Visual Studies Workshop, whose residency funded the production of her artist book, "The Yarn Must Live: A Polemic on a Pandemic and Public Art," which was acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2021. Since 2017, she has organized maker interventions on issues of social reform tied to geographic place reaching 2,000 craft participants. She is also under contract for an upcoming book with Rowman & Littlefield,Crafting Choice: Abortion Politics and Handwork in the U.S.She's been interviewed byTheNew York TimesandThe Associated Press, among other global outlets, on the importance of making objects by hand. She is on Instagram: @crochetactivism.