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About the Author Clea Koff. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.cleakoff.com/about-the-author.html

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Clea Koff was born in London, United Kingdom in 1972. She is currently 49 years old. She is a well-known forensic anthropologist and author.

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Her parents are David Koff and Msindo Mwinyipembe, they were documentary filmmakers who focused on human rights issues. She also has an older brother.

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Clea Koff has currently written two books; The Bone Woman (2004) and Freezing (2011)

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The Bone Woman is a non-fiction book talking about Clea Koff's experiences as a United Nation's forensic anthropologist.

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A fiction mystery book, which is about two anthropologists who need to identify human remains.

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Berlins, M. (2011, November 11). Freezing by Clea Koff. Retrieved from https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/freezing-by-clea-koff-dcp738dcbrt

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Clea holds a Bachelor's degree from Stanford University, a Master's degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and trained with Dr. Walt Birkby, while she was a Master’s student in the graduate forensics anthropology program at the University of Arizona.

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Clea Koff. (2021, June 24). Retrieved from https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/forensic-investigation/clea-koff/

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magazine, S. T. A. N. F. O. R. D. (n.d.). Grave testimony. STANFORD magazine. https://stanfordmag.org/contents/grave-testimony.

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Wolanin, A. (2020, April 2). A conversation with real forensic Anthropologist Clea Koff. Org. https://www.wgbh.org/programs/2019/01/04/drama-club-a-conversation-with-real-forensic-anthropologist-clea-koff.

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In 1996, Koff was one of the members of the first international forensics team to go to Rwanda. This team was put together by the United Nations to investigate evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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Her main job was to dig up the bodies to see if there was any evidence of war crimes. After This, and completing her master's degree, she went on missions to Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo all in 2000. For all of these missions she was the Deputy Chief Anthropologist of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal Morgue.

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In 2006, She was the Co-coordinator of an Anthropology Laboratory of the United Nations Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus. Up until 2012, she worked in Los Angeles at the Missing Persons Identification Resource Center. She helped found this center to develop forensic profiles to help assist in identifying bodies. The number of unidentified bodies being held by the offices around the United States is estimated to be around 40,000, Koff said in 2013 in her personal biography. She hopes that this program can help match families with the unidentified bodies.

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As a child, Clea Koff wanted to be a librarian or secretary.

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She claims that stand-up comedy is her secret talent.

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She was the youngest member of the United Nations team to exhume a mass grave.

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Koff's career began with a book that her father gave her during her freshman year: Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell, by Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover. While reading it, she learned about Argentina's first human-rights forensics team.

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What she loves most about her job is that forensic anthropology can do most than just restore the identity to the unidentified, it can help restore the intentions of a killer who believes they have erased their victim from the face of the earth. "This is very powerful to me because is it more than a science producing facts or a scientist evaluating evidence, it is a body revealing aspects of its life and last moments. In that way, the body comes to life, if you will. It has a story to tell, despite the efforts of another to silence them, and it is my job to listen." She said.