Alida Brill

Alida Brill is an award-winning author, social critic, and advocate for women and girls. She has written and spoken about the personal and public issues surrounding women and chronic illness and questions of medical privacy.

Alida has been living with chronic autoimmune disease for nearly 50 years. Her latest book, Dancing at the River's Edge: A Patient and Her Doctor Negotiate Life With Chronic Illness is a dual memoir, written in collaboration with her physician, Dr. Michael Lockshin.

The author of Nobody's Business: The Paradoxes of Privacy (1990); and co-author of the landmark book, Dimensions of Tolerance: What Americans Believe About Civil Liberties (1983), Alida is also the editor of A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide (1995.)

Alida is a frequent guest on television and radio interview shows, a featured speaker at conferences and a guest lecturer at universities and colleges in the United States and abroad.