An award-winning author, theatre artist and spoken word poet, Dr. Cristina A. Bejan has published books in all of her genres (history, poetry, playwriting). Her plays have been performed in 4 countries and her hit play DISTRICTLAND was bought for TV development. She has appeared as an expert on A&E's The History Channel, C-SPAN, and multiple Romanian TV channels. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, Libertatea and ELLE Romania magazine ... among many more print and audio outlets. In NYC she has performed at La MaMA Experimental Theatre Club and launched 5 published plays at The Drama Book Shop. She has also collaborated on professional theatre productions with Broadway director Lila Neugebauer and actors Rosamund Pike (UK) and Maia Morgenstern (Romania). Since 2010 Dr. Bejan has worked consistently as a Historian in research and teaching. As a professor she has taught at 5 universities and one community college. For almost 10 years Dr. Bejan was an invited Guest Lecturer for the US School of Foreign Service, lecturing departing American diplomats on the history and culture of Eastern Europe. As a graduate of Wadham (University of Oxford's college known for Human Rights advocacy), she is passionate about Equal Rights for all and access to education. Dr. Bejan's graduate degrees were fully funded by merit-based Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships and many grants. To her knowledge she is Romania's only Rhodes Scholar. She is the Executive Director of Bucharest Inside the Beltway, a multicultural arts & culture platform that she co-founded in 2014 to promote local and international inclusive voices in the arts. She serves as founding Advisory Board member of Alianța and advocate for Project HOPE, The Alex Fund, NAMI & RAINN. She is honored to be selected as a 2025 Aspen Ideas Fellow and for the George Parkin Distinguished Service Award 2025 (Rhodes Trust). Dr. Bejan recently commissioned to adapt the memoir "The Hooligan's Return" by Norman Manea for the stage. Manea is Romania's most famous living Holocaust survivor and has been frequently considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is working on this stage play in addition to a number of writing projects while auditing classes at the Sorbonne. Please visit cristinaabejan.com