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Joanie Schirm is a writer, community activist, and retired Orlando, Florida award-winning businesswoman. A regular contributor over twenty years to the Tribune's Orlando Sentinel "My Word" column, she is author of over 200 articles for professional trade journals; major market national interviewee broadcast on PBS and NPR, and sought after public speaker. Her recent WWII-era non-fiction book, Adventurers Against Their Will, has been described by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as "a brilliant and compelling account of men and women caught in the turbulence of war"" www.joanieschirm.com