Edith Looking-Glass
Edith Looking-Glass is a Children of Gaia.
Biography
Edith Kanyuck was born to a Kin family in New York State and studied with Pearl-of-the-River, the Gaian sage. After working with Asian refugees in New York City, she meditated on the human suffering in Southeast Asia. Gaia spoke to Edith and told her to witness the deeds of the Wyrm in flesh there, to be a mirror showing the horror and cruelty to all. The young woman moved to San Francisco and began human rights work, eventually founding Project Vajra ("thunderbolt"), which she continues to head.
Project Vajra is one of the few groups sanctioned by the Garou Nation to regularly visit Asia. The organization sends Garou-only teams (with Kin support groups) into China, Burma-Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, seeking human rights abuses, infiltrating Chinese slave-labor camps, traveling with hermits, rebels and aboriginal tribes. They have made brief contact with Asia's shapeshifters, who have apparently given them sanction to continue their operations as long as they don't try to take any actual territory for themselves.
Edith has personally gone ten times into the region and emerged with thousands of pages of documentation, photos, video and human stories. She seeks to document cruelty and open human evil to the light of day, to "speak truth to power." The United Nations commission on human rights has heard her group testify several times but has done nothing. Several governments have forbidden her presence (knowing her by name) and even sent soldiers or police after her; her rejection of violence as a means, however, has not guaranteed the safety of those sent to keep her from her task.