Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan is an activist, writer, and scholar and founder of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative, a global project to mobilize around the
political impact of sexual violence. She is the Publisher of Adi Magazine, and the creator of the
Female Fighter Series at Guernica Magazine. Described by Valerial Luiselli as proof of a "political imagination like no other", her book
De Armas Tomar: Por qué las mujeres eligen la violencia (Sexto Piso 2023) /
Radicalizing Her (Beacon Press 2021), examine the complex politics of the female fighter. Her political essays, which have appeared in Harper's Magazine, Freeman's Journal, McSweeney's Quarterly, Guernica Magazine, and Foreign Affairs, among others have been described as "searing in a search for answers" (Publisher's Weekly).