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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Zieva Konvisser’s diverse career has evolved from pharmaceutical chemist to automotive executive to earning a post-“retirement” PhD in human development. As a Fellow of the Institute for Social Innovation at Fielding Graduate University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Wayne State University, her research focuses on the human impact of traumatic events, such as terrorism, genocide, war, and wrongful conviction. She has served on the National Commission on American Jewish Women and the boards of several community, philanthropic, and professional organizations and is currently on the international board of METIV: The Israel Psychotrauma Center, the advisory board of Strength to Strength, and the board of Proving Innocence. Whether in the laboratory, the parts distribution center, the streets of Jerusalem, or the boardroom, she has always been driven by a commitment to make a positive difference in people’s lives and the communities in which they live and work.

EVENTS

  • October 3, 2022: Freed and Exonerated Women Speak Out. 2022 Wrongful Conviction Day Innocence Network Livestream
  • April 8, 2022: Freed & Exonerated Women Speak Out – Hear Our Voices. 2022 Innocence Network Conference, Phoenix, AZ
  • December 9, 2021: Resilience and Vulnerability in Aging Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, Zekelman Holocaust Center Docent Education Program, Farmington Hills, MI,
  • April 8, 2021: Psychological Consequences of Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Conviction and Justice System Errors, Wayne State University Criminal Justice Department, Detroit, MI
  • March 4 2021: Exonerated and Freed Women, Wrongful Conviction and Justice System Errors, Wayne State University Criminal Justice Department, Detroit, MI
  • October 2, 2020: The Muses – Women’s Voices. 20020 Wrongful Conviction Day Innocence Network Livestream
  • July 14, 2020: Rethinking Resilience: Surviving and Thriving through the Uncharted Waters of COVID-19 Panel Discussion. Fielding Graduate University
  • March 31, 2020: Health and Wellness for Exonerated Women, Virtual Innocence Network Conference
  • December 8, 2019: Worrier to Warrior, Bais Chabad Torah Center, West Bloomfield, MI
  • September 15, 2019: Michigan – 45th Anniversary Fielding Gathering
  • May 13, 2019: Interfaith Leadership Council Exploring Religious Landscapes, Oak Park, MI
  • April 11-13, 2019: 2019 Innocence Network Conference, Atlanta, GA
  • April 11, 2019: 2019: Guest Lecturer, Chillon Project of Life Univerty's Center for Compassion, Integrity, Secular Ethics, Arrendale State Prison for Women, Georgia
  • March 24, 2019: WISDOM’s Women Who Inspire: An Interfaith Celebration of International Women’s Day, Troy, MI
  • February 26, 2019: Race, Gender, and Wrongful Conviction Symposium, Wayne State University Criminal Justice Department & Law School, Detroit, MI
  • October 20, 2018: Panel Discussion, Rochester Writers’ Conference, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
  • July 26, 2018: Meet the Author!: The Grey Wolfe Scriptorium, Clawson, MI
  • July 17-21, 2018: Fielding Graduate University, Chicago, IL
  • March 22-24, 2018: 2018 Innocence Network Conference, Memphis, TN
  • January 10, 2018: Inclusive Transformative Learning & Leadership for Social Justice Symposium: Transforming the Trauma of Wrongful Conviction, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA
  • June 14-17, 2017: Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy World Congress, Dallas, TX
  • May 19-21, 2017: United Hebrew Congregation, St. Louis, MO (43:20 - 1:16:54)
  • March 23-25, 2017: 2017 Innocence Network Conference, San Diego, CA
  • October 20-23, 2016: XII International Transformative Learning Conference, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
  • October 18, 2016: Book Discussion, Temple B’nai Torah Sisterhood, Bellevue, WA
  • September 24, 2016: Book Discussion, Temple El Emeth, Youngstown, OH
  • July 13-16, 2016: Fielding Graduate University, Chicago, IL
  • May 23, 2016: Woodward Avenue Shul Women’s Study Group, Huntington Woods, MI
  • April 7-9, 2016: 2016 Innocence Network Conference, San Antonio, TX
  • March 18, 2016: WMU-Cooley Journal of Criminal & Practical Law and the WMU-Cooley Innocence Project, Lansing, MI
  • November 18-21, 2015: American Society of Criminology Conference, Washington, DC
  • November 10, 2015 6:00pm: Fielding Graduate University Alumni Focus Webinar: Book Publishing: The Long and Winding Road
  • October 21, 2015: Book Discussion and Signing, ORT Michigan Membership Event
  • June 17-21, 2015: Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy World Congress, Dallas, TX
  • May 31, 2015: Book Discussion and Signing, Cheryl Carter Beth El University Series, Akron, OH
  • May 5, 2015: Book Discussion and Signing, Orlando Chapter of Hadassah, Maitland, FL
  • May 1-2, 2015: 2015 Innocence Network Conference, Orlando, FL
  • April 24, 2015: Michigan State University Jewish Studies Faculty and Student Research Seminar, E. Lansing, MI
  • March 8-11, 2015: First International Logotherapy Congress in Israel, Haifa
  • March 3-7, 2015: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences 52nd Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL
  • February 7, 2015: Congregation Beth Shalom Shabbat Lunch and Learn, Oak Park, MI
  • January 23, 2015, 6:00 pm: Congregation Beth Ahm Shabbat Dinner and Limmud, West Bloomfield, MI
  • January 6-9, 2015: Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA
  • November 19-22, 2014: American Society of Criminology Conference, San Francisco, CA
  • November 17, 2014, 6:00 pm: Congregation Beth Shalom Sisterhood Membership Dinner, Oak Park, MI
  • November 13, 2014, 1:00 pm: Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit 63rd Annual Jewish Book Fair, Oak Park, MI
  • November 11, 2014, noon: JCC of Greater Ann Arbor’s The Jewish Book Festival, Ann Arbor MI
  • November 9, 2014, 2:30 pm: Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit 63rd Annual Jewish Book Fair, West Bloomfield, MI
  • November 2, 2014, 1:15 pm: The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Inc., Novi, MI
  • October 24-26, 2014: XI International Transformative Learning Conference, Teachers College, New York, NY
  • October 5, 2014, 1:00 pm: Book Discussion and Signing, Association for Psychoanalytic Thought, Farmington Hills, MI
  • August 20, 2014: Hadassah Eleanor Roosevelt Study Group, West Bloomfield, MI
  • August 19, 2014, 2:00 pm: Retired Men’s Group, West Bloomfield, MI
  • July 17-18, 2014: Fielding Graduate University, Chicago, IL
  • July 1, 2014: Israel Center for Treatment of Psychotrauma Trauma and Resilience Workshop, Hebrew University Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
  • June 22, 2014, 6:00 pm: Book Launch, Dan Panorama Jerusalem
  • June 15, 2014, 10:30 am: Book Discussion and Signing, Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel (AACI), Netanya
  • June 9, 2014: International Conference on Oral History, Hebrew University Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
  • May 30-31, 2014: Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ
  • May 28, 2014: Jewish Book Council Network Meet the Author, New York, NY

    • INTERVIEWS AND BOOK REVIEWS

    The Justice Seekers, by Barbara Lewis, Detroit Jewish News, March 9, 2023
    Interview: “The Splash” Person of the Week, Civic Center TV, December 4, 2017
    Interview: Nurturing Survivors, Focus Magazine: Social Justice, Fielding Graduate University, Summer 2017
    Interview: Interview: Innocence Project in Print, Volume 11, Issue 1, Fall 2015
    Book Review: Loretta Polish, Free Associations, Newsletter of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (p. 17), March 2015 Volume 45 Number 1
    Interview: For Israeli families bereaved by Gaza war, a ‘lonely journey’ is still in its early stages, Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org, January 15, 2015
    Book Review: Facing terror as a daily event, Alan Jay Gerber, The Jewish Star, December 3, 2014
    Interview: JM Sunday with Mattes Weingast, Nachum Segal Network, November 23, 2014 (1:15:30-1:29:21)
    Book Review: Chicago Jewish Star, November 14-27, 2014
    Book Review: Barbara Goodman, Michigan Jewish History Journal, Volume 54, Fall 2014
    Interview: Zieva Dauber Konvisser: Living Beyond Terrorism, Livia-Bitton-Jackson. The Jewish Press, August 29, 2014
    Interview: The Big Falafel with Molly Livingstone, Voice of Israel, August 12, 2014
    Book Review: The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, August 7, 2014
    Book Review: "Living Beyond Terrorism," A Book Review, Batia Medad. Shiloh Musings, July 30, 2014
    Interview: Faith amid the Flames, Mishpacha Magazine, July 29, 2014 ( For full text click here )
    Book Review: Resilience to master any crisis, Sybil Kaplan. The Jewish Post & Opinion (p. 17), July 2, 2014
    Interview: The Jewish Hour with Rabbi Herschel Finman, WLQV 1500 AM, July 20, 2014
    Interview: Book includes focus on NJ terror survivor, New Jersey Jewish News, July 14, 2014
    Living Beyond Terrorism, OneFamily, June 27, 2014
    Interview: Morning News Edition with Yael Wissner-Levy, i24 TV, June 26, 2014
    Book Review: The Days After, T. Lamm, The Jewish Press, June 20, 2014 ( For full issue click here )
    Interview: Tamar Yonah Show, Arutz Sheva Radio, June 16, 2014
    Book Review: Triumphing over terrorism, Heritage Florida Jewish News, June 6, 2014
    Interview: Life After Trauma, Detroit Jewish News, April 3, 2014
    Book Reviews: Library Thing
    Book Reviews: Good Reads

    ZIEVA'S ARTICLES AND BLOGS

    Creative Expressions, Guest Editor, Michigan Jewish History, Volume 63 (Summer, 2023)
    Bearing Witness, Hadassah Greater Detroit Here and Now, June 2, 2023
    Voices, Michigan Jewish History, Summer 2021, pp. 121.
    Home, Michigan Jewish History, Summer 2020, pp. 108-111.
    Blog: A Different Song of Hope: Survivors of Terror, Israel Forever Foundation, May 7, 2019
    Blog: How Can Parents Help Children Cope with Trauma?, Israel Forever Foundation, November 2, 2018
    Blog: A Purim Remembrance, Israel Forever Foundation, February 22, 2018
    Blog: Blessing for Maddie on Her Bat Mitzvah, Israel Forever Foundation, February 12, 2018
    Blog: Losing a Child to Terror, Israel Forever Foundation, December 19, 2017
    Book Review of “Miriam’s Song” by Smadar Shir, Israel Forever Foundation, October 15, 2017
    Reading Israel: Living Beyond Terrorism: Israeli Stories of Hope and Healing, Israel Forever Foundation, June 12, 2017
    Blog: Uncovering Stories of Hope and Healing, Israel Forever Foundation, June 12, 2017
    A Purim remembrance, The Times of Israel, March 8, 2017
    The Year Without Purim…Another Time and Place, The Israel Forever Foundation, March 5, 2017
    Book review: Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story’ by Matti Friedman, The Times of Israel, February 26, 2017
    Book review: Miriam’s Song: The Story of Miriam Peretz by Smadar Shir, The Times of Israel, January 6, 2017
    Hope – The Force That Moves Us Forward, The Times of Israel, December 30, 2016
    Jewish Unity, The Times of Israel, November 3, 2016
    The Year Without Purim… Another Time and Place, The Times of Israel, March 24, 2016
    A Good Day for God’s Hand, The Times of Israel, March 20, 2016
    Courage, Kindness, and Action: Israeli Responses to Terror, The Times of Israel, March 13, 2016
    Surviving Terror: Listening To Their Voices, Understanding Their Lives, The Israel Forever Foundation, November 10, 2015
    Reading Survivor Stories, Listening To Their Voices, Remembering Their Lives, The Times of Israel, September 1, 2015
    Strength to Strength: Survivors Healing Survivors, The Times of Israel, June 12, 2015
    Song of hope, The Times of Israel, April 20, 2015
    Just Say “I’m Sorry,”, The Times of Israel, March 3, 2015
    Hatikvah – “The Hope”, The Times of Israel, February 11, 2015
    Living Beyond Terrorism and Wrongful Conviction: Stories of Hope and Healing, Holding Hope, February 3, 2015
    Defy Darkness, Spread Light, The Times of Israel, December 29, 2014
    Op-Ed: A Journey to Emotional Healing After a Terror Attack, Arutz Sheva, December 13, 2014
    Living Together in Israel…The Nicest Place in the World, The Times of Israel, November 30, 2014
    A Candle for Chaya Zisel Hy"d, Arutz Sheva, October 30, 2014
    Op-Ed: A Sukkot Story: Terror, Humor, and a Happy Ending, Arutz Sheva, October 9, 2014
    After Arab Bank verdict, don’t lose sight of the human impact of terror, The Algemeiner, October 3, 2014
    After Arab Bank verdict, don’t lose sight of the human impact of terror, The Times of Israel, October 1, 2014
    After Arab Bank verdict, don’t lose sight of the human impact of terror, JNS.org, September 29, 2014
    After the Suicide Bombing, 614: The HBI eZine, September 23, 2014 ( For full text click here )
    Survivors…Discovering Who They Really Are and Rebuilding Their Lives Beyond Terrorism, The Times of Israel, September 23, 2014
    Why Must We Commemorate?...A Question With Two Meanings, The Times of Israel, September 17, 2014
    The Newest “Families of the Bereaved”…Young Lives Lost in the Service of One’s Country, The Times of Israel, September 9, 2014
    The Newest “Families of the Bereaved”…Honoring Children’s Memories by Helping Other Children, The Times of Israel, September 2, 2014
    The Newest “Families of the Bereaved”…National and Personal Losses and Grief, The Times of Israel, August 25, 2014
    'How does one prepare to be a bereaved mother?', The International Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2014
    'How does one prepare to be a bereaved mother?', The Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2014
    From tragedy to triumph, The Jerusalem Post, May 7, 2014
    Op-Ed: Celebrating the Lives of Israel’s Defenders, Arutz Sheva, May 5, 2014
    The Year Without Purim, excerpt from Living Beyond Terrorism on aish.com, March 8, 2014
    Surviving Terrorism and Other Traumas, Detroit Jewish News, April 12, 2012
    A Personal War: A Detroiter Finds the Faces of Israelis Withstanding Terrorism, Detroit Jewish News, February 19, 2009

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