Ian Brennan is a Grammy-winning music producer who has produced three other Grammy-nominated albums. He is the author of four books and has worked with the likes of filmmaker John Waters, Merle Haggard, and Green Day, among others. His work with international artists such as the Zomba Prison Project, Tanzania Albinism Collective, and Khmer Rouge Survivors, has been featured on the front page of the New York Times and on an Emmy-winning 60 Minutes segment with Anderson Cooper reporting. Since 1993 he has taught violence prevention and conflict resolution around the world for such prestigious organizations as the Smithsonian, New York's New School, Berklee College of Music, the University of London, the University of California-Berkeley, and the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze in Rome. He lives in San Francisco, CA.
""If Ian Brennan didn't exist, we'd have to invent him."" --Michael Church, BBC Magazine ""Brennan calls for a restructuring of how we speak as a way to expand our ways of thinking, eliminating all or nothing/black-and-white words and creating a world without hate."" --Dr. Patt Denning, Harm Reduction Center ""In a world gone mad, Ian Brennan's teachings are a calm in the storm."" --Bob Forrest, author of Running with Monsters: A Memoir