Cynthia with Michaela Haas, Ph.D., is an award-winning solutions reporter and author of four non-fiction books

Michaela Haas, Ph.D., is an award-winning solutions reporter and author of four non-fiction books, including, most recently, Bouncing Forward: The Art and Science of Cultivating Resilience (Atria) and Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Buddhism in the West (Shambala). She is a contributing editor for David Byrne’s Reasons to be Cheerful, a columnist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and works as a freelance West Coast reporter for international media. In the US, her articles have appeared in the New York Times, AlJazeera, Rotary International, the Huffington Post, CBS, and numerous other media. Awards include the Professional Excellence Award 2022-2023 from the Foreign Press Correspondents Association&Club (AFPC-USA), Winner ASJA Health Writing 2022, First Place Environmental Reporting LAPress Club 2020, a.o. Find her at www.MichaelaHaas.com