Dara Herman Zierlein is a political artist who continuously uses her art to advocate awareness in the world. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and her work has been published in among others, Mom Egg Review, Resist, The Earth Issue (London), and Demeter Press (Canada), and she is currently illustrating for The Rumpus, a literary forum. Her first children’s book, Don’t Eat the Plastic, was published in the spring of 2020.