Staughton Lynd s an American conscientious objector, Quaker, peace activist and civil rights activist, tax resister, historian, professor, author and lawyer. His involvement in social justice causes has brought him into contact with some of the nation's most influential activists, including Howard Zinn, Tom Hayden and Daniel Berrigan. Lynd's contribution to the cause of social justice and the peace movement is chronicled in Carl Mirra's biography, "The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970," published in 2010 by Kent State University Press. He currently lives in Youngstown, Ohio.