Maggie Jarry, M.Div. -  Maggie wears many hats. Most relevant here is her volunteer work as co-founder of the  Daughters and Sons Initiative. Inspired by her life experience as a daughter of a mother who parented well while  struggling with schizoaffective  illness,  a stepfather who  experienced schizophrenia and a father who suffered  from  chronic depression, in 2003 Maggie began  efforts to galvanize support for people who  have a parent with  mental illness. She has worked to  change the way people think about having a parent with mental illness within  mental health and child welfare systems by coordinating national workshops and panel discussions across the United States and abroad. Her essay “A Peer Saplings Story: Lifting the Veil on Parents with Mental Illness and Their Daughters and Sons” was published in the December 2009 issue of Psychiatric Services. Ms. Jarry’s most recent written contribution is an essay entitled, "River of Resilience: A Daughter's Memories of Becoming Whole", in Motherhood, Mental Illness and Recovery: Stories of Hope(Springer International, August 2014). Professionally, Maggie's career is in disaster response and recovery, which began through her work in New York City’s World Trade Center disaster recovery efforts. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, Columbia University; a Master of Science degree in Nonprofit Management from the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy at The New School in New York; and two Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Arizona in Tucson.