Clare Weber is Professor of Sociology at California State University, San Bernardino. Her research has focused on international human rights, globalization, transnational feminism, and community organizing from a multicultural perspective. She is the author of Visions of Solidarity: US Peace Activists in Nicaragua, from War to Women’s Activism and Globalization and co-editor of Cultural Politics in the 21st Century: Global Resistance and Community based Social Movements in the Americas. Prior to her academic career, Weber worked as a community organizer. She was a human rights investigator in Central America during the civil wars of the 1980s, a Regional Coordinator for the international Human Rights Organization, Witness for Peace, and coordinator of a campaign to legalize street vending in Los Angeles. Weber holds a PhD in Social Relations from the University of California, Irvine.