Katherine Stuart van Wormer, Ph.D., M.S.S.W., is Professor of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa. Her Ph.D. is in sociology from the University of Georgia. Katherine van Wormer participated in two civil rights movements in the 1960s—one in North Carolina and one in Northern Ireland, where she taught English for several years. She has authored, co-authored, or co-edited over 20 books and 60 articles, among them The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South (LSU Press, 2012) co-authored with D.W. Jackson III and C. Sudduth; Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice: From Policy Analysis to Social Action (2012, CSWE Press), co-authored with L. Kaplan and C. Juby; and Restorative Justice Today: Practical Applications (2013, SAGE), co-editeded with Lorenn Walker.