Rita is the co-editor and contributing author to the award-winning, recently published anthology, "The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust." She was trained as a clinical/school psychologist and served on the faculty at the University of Michigan for over 20 years, where she taught and developed curriculum programs for students and faculty in integrative medicine and published numerous academic papers and chapters. As a founder of the non-profit Michigan Collaborative for Mindfulness in Education (MC4ME), she trains educators and other professionals in mindfulness meditation practice. She also leads weekly meditation practices for the Cancer Support Community of Ann Arbor. Rita has three adult children and lives in her Ann Arbor home with her husband and golden retriever. In her spare time, she enjoys practicing yoga, painting, writing poetry, and playing with her four grandchildren.  

Joy, a co-editor and author of this anthology, is a recently retired psychologist whose clinical, teaching, and leadership activities over 45 years have centered on the social determinants of health and the multigenerational legacy of trauma. She remains active in the Michigan Psychological Association, of which she is a Fellow and past president. Joy attended the New York City public schools and earned her undergraduate degree at Sarah Lawrence College and her doctorate at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is on the Founding Committee of the Irene Butter Fund for Holocaust and Human Rights Education (based in Ann Arbor) and is involved in a variety of social justice groups. Joy and her husband Doug, a fellow psychologist, have two grown daughters (both academics in English and creative writing) and one granddaughter.

Ruth, a co-editor and author of this anthology, is a retired training and development executive. She currently volunteers at the Florida Holocaust Museum as a speaker and docent. Ruth also assists her Holocaust survivor father, Sidney Finkel, with his speaking engagements and book Sevek and the Holocaust: The Boy Who Refused to Die. Ruth grew up in Chicago, spent more than twenty years living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and now lives in Largo, Florida. She has one son, Ike, named after her father Sidney’s brother Izzy. Ike and his wife Natalie are data scientists living in Chicago.