Raised on the mean streets of New York City's Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist, filmmaker and history teacher once called "cute and some what brainy" by the National Review. A national director of Living Liberally, Katie is also a founder/ comedian of Laughing Liberally. Her writing appears on Huffington Post, Alternet, Daily Kos, Open Left, Working Life, and Culture Kitchen. Katie is editing her next documentary about Camp Kinderland (where Katie, her mother and grandmother went) and their "Peace Olympics," the camp's non-violent and socially conscious alternative to Color Wars.