About the Author

Sheryl Takagi Silzer, a multicultural consultant for SIL International, earned her PhD in Intercultural Studies from Fuller School of World Mission in 2001. She also has earned master's degrees from Biola University and Talbot School of Theology. She has served with SIL for over forty years and has developed and led workshops on cultural self-identity and multi-cultural team-building in Latin America, Asia, Central Asia, and the Pacific. She and her husband have two sons and four grandchildren.