Tania Bernath
Bearing Witness: Memoir, Human Rights, and the Fight for Democracy
Writer of memoir and narrative nonfiction, exploring human rights, justice, and taking action. Through personal narrative and activism, I illuminate the stories that shape social change.
Now You Know What It’s Like
In 2007, I traveled to The Gambia to investigate enforced disappearances under Yahya Jammeh’s regime. The investigation spiraled into my own arrest and surveillance and a lifelong reckoning with how authoritarian power suppresses truth, and what it takes to keep telling it anyway. The memoir braids that story with the one unfolding here at home: the habits I learned working under dictatorships — adapting, continuing the work, refusing to freeze — have become the lens through which I read this American moment.
Currently in development. Represented material and updates available on request.
