About the Author

Carolyn E. Yoder is the Founding Director of STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience), a training program of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia. She worked as an educator and psychotherapist in Asia, East and Southern Africa, the Middle East, and the Caucuses for more than eighteen years. She has a private psychotherapy practice specializing in transforming trauma and offers online resources at www.PeaceAfterTrauma.com. She holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from Alliant International University and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh. She and her husband, Rick, live in Harrisonburg, Virginia. They have three daughters and four grandchildren.