About the author

The daughter of a Tanzanian mother and an American father, both documentary filmmakers, Clea was born in London and spent her childhood in England, Tanzania, Kenya, and the United States.  She earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Stanford University in 1994, studied forensic anthropology in the University of Arizona Master's program from 1993 to 1995, and earned a Master's degree in Anthropology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1999.  Between 1996 and 2000, she worked as a forensic expert for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.  The Bone Woman, first published in 2004 and now published in nine languages and more than 14 countries, is a memoir of those experiences.  In 2006, Clea was Co-coordinator of the Anthropology Laboratory of the United Nations Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus, working on behalf of the Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense.  She is now based in Los Angeles, where she founded the non-profit organization the Missing Persons Identification Resource Center (MPID).  MPID was profiled by the ABC World News Tonight Weekend program.