Contributors

Janet Bond Brill, PhD, is the author of Little Edna’s War (Amsterdam Publishers), the true story of her mother-in-law’s survival of the Warsaw Ghetto and her years in the Polish resistance, published on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2026. Visit her author website for more information about her work.

Jeannie Gaffigan is an actress, producer, writer, philanthropist, mother of five and all around comedic force. Jeannie is the director and a founding member of The Imagine Society Inc., a youth-led nonprofit organization. Jeannie is also the author of a New York Times Bestseller, When Life Gives You Pears, a memoir chronicling her diagnosis, surgery and recovery from a Pear sized brain tumor. Jeannie lives with her husband Jim and their five children in New York City.