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Lisa Fliegel

Lisa Fliegel is a writer and International Trauma Specialist, who served as a journalist covering the Middle East Peace Process. Lisa's award-winning non-fiction has appeared in The Times of London, The Jerusalem Post Magazine, Response, Midstream, ARC, and The Tel-Aviv Review, among other journals. Her academic publications include New Directions in Youth Development, and The American Journal of Art Therapy. Lisa has her bachelor’s degree in Hebrew Literature from the Tel-Aviv Teacher's Seminary; and her writing is richly informed by a bi-lingual, multi-cultural perspective.

Lisa founded and directed the award-winning Arts Incentives Program (AIP) in Boston. AIP was recognized by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), for its success in reducing disparities in minority contact in the Juvenile Justice System. In April 2015, Ms. Fliegel published a chapter on her program model, titled "Good Looking Out," in the book: "Latanya: Gangs, Girls and Guns, Workbook & Leader's Guide" (The Latanya Series).

Lisa Fliegel is an author, journalist, translator and award-winning writer of narrative non-fiction. She has works appearing in over a dozen venues, including; The Jerusalem Post Magazine, Response, Midstream, ARC, and the Tel-Aviv Review. Lisa's current writing project is based on her experience as an American-Israeli embedded trauma therapist, working with people who live with raw wounds of significant psychological trauma, she relies on the survivors to invite her in and become tethered to their stories as an instrument of healing. Her perspective is like that of the war photographer, whose pictures only matter because they are taken in the field of fire.

Ms Fliegel's current book "The Clinical Adventures of a Bullet Proof Therapist," fuses the universal imperative of narrative journalism with the intimacy and singularity of a memoir. These narratives of healing are drawn from three disparate places where she has worked, that have faced seemingly intractable pain and conflict: inner-city Boston, Israel/Palestine, and Northern Ireland. Creating healing relationships at the intersections of these conflict zones, in a quest to learn from examples of positive change; frames this story with a distilled wisdom that can dramatically reshape how we interpret violence and achieve resolution.

Lisa's mother Beverly Ross Fliegel was a foot soldier in the battlefields of the War on Poverty. When Fliegel was in kindergarten, the President signed a $947.5 million anti-poverty bill into law. The following year, 1965, President Johnson enacted reforms to Social Security, and a guarantee of health insurance for the elderly and the poor through Medicare and Medicaid.

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