When a teen in our life is in crisis, the entire family suffers. Lori’s passion is to support families and foster healing as they navigate this traumatic and stressful experience. She helps loved ones understand the teen’s diagnosis and their role in it to encourage loving and respectful relationships and family serenity. Having navigated this path in her own family, she is honored to share her experience, strength, and hope, along with useful resources for many of the difficult decisions loved ones face.
As BNI Family Liaison Director, Lori assists families through therapy, education, and individual support designed to lessen some of the stresses and provide relief through the knowledge and experience of others who have walked similar paths.
Lori has enjoyed the honor of a career helping others, as a human rights and civil rights attorney, as board president of a nonprofit providing life-saving surgeries to children, and as a certified therapy dog handler. Her educational background includes a JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, a BS in business administration and international relations from USC, and a Certificate in the Delivery of Global Health Services from Harvard University Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning.