Laura Johnston Kohl is a writer, a bilingual teacher, on the Speakers’ Bureau of The Jonestown Institute, a bilingual international speaker, a Quaker, and a Board Member of the Communal Studies Association. When 914 members of Peoples Temple and four visiting Americans died in Guyana, South America on November 18, 1978, Laura survived. She was one of 87 who lived through the trauma. In 2010 Laura published her book Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look. Laura contributes to the annual Jonestown Report published by the Jonestown Institute and is helping set up a survivors’ visit to Jonestown with a documentary crew.
