DEBORAH LEVINE is Founder/Editor-in-Chief of the American Diversity Report, an award-winning author of 20 books, and a Forbes Magazine Diversity And Inclusion Trailblazer. She has served as a speaker, consultant and coach to nonprofits, government agencies, corporations and universities. Her diversity work began in childhood in Bermuda as the granddaughter of one of its Founding 400 and the only Jewish family to have lived on the island for 4 generations. She is a Holocaust educator and former executive with Jewish Federations, American Jewish Committee, and DuPage/Chicago Interfaith Resource Network.

Deborah is a Cognitive Diversity inventor using the neuroscience of storytelling, emotion metrics, and decision-optimization. Given her pioneering work: IT office manager in the 1980s, interfaith organization founder in the 1990s, FBI security training in Tulsa after the Oklahoma City bombing, women’s advocacy organizer in 2000, and inventor of a cognitive diversity system, Deborah has more than 33 years experience as a change maker for a diverse world in challenging times.