The City's Backyard Ep 50 Award-winning author, speaker, and coach Deborah Levine...A Forbes Magazine top Diversity & Inclusion Trail Blazer. Her World War II documentary Untold Stories of a WWII Liberator is a winner in 8 film festivals!

DEBORAH J. LEVINE is an award-winning author, speaker, and coach. A Forbes Magazine top Diversity & Inclusion Trail Blazer, she designs cross-cultural materials and workshops based on the science of storytelling. Brought up in British Bermuda, she started her career as a Gal Friday in the garment district of NYC. Deborah has lived, worked and studied across the US and has worked in-person or virtually internationally: Great Britain, France, Italy, Scandinavia, Japan, and Uzbekistan. She is currently headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee.AWARD WINNING AUTHORDeborah is author of 15 books, winner of a National Press Association Award and Southern Literature Alliance Distinguished Local Author Award. She was a contributor to The Huffington Post for several years and her articles appear in the Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, European Women in Construction & Engineering, The Bermudian Magazine, The Journal of Ecumenical Studies, and Journal of Public Management & Social Policy. Her work has been featured in major media outlets: Online Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Tulsa World, The Chattanooga Times Free Press. and CSPAN BOOKTV. Deborah transformed her award-winning memoir series, The Liberator's Daughter and The Magic Marble Tree, into screenplays/scripts. Her World War II documentary is a winner in 8 film festivals and her TV pilot script about her life has won in 26 film festivals,https://americandiversityreport.com