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Susan E. Lawrence, M.D., is the Founder and Executive Director of The Catalyst Foundation, a Southern California-based nonprofit organization whose mission it is to decrease the impact of childhood abuse and trauma on society and the world. She is the award-winning author of Creating a Healing Society: The Impact of Human Emotional Pain and Trauma on Society and the World, which has been honored as a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Finalist, a Nautilus Book Award Silver Winner, and a recipient of the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Dr. Lawrence was also a prize-winning finalist in the 2008 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards for her work towards creating transformational change and healing within prisons.