Author: Marisa Handler
Narrator: Michael Toms
Unabridged: 0 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 09/18/2007
A true global citizen, Marisa Handler was born in South Africa to a Jewish family. They moved away from the imposed apartheid to California's San Fernando Valley, when she was eleven years old. She has since become an activist for social justice, and is inspired by the wisdom of her spiritual convictions of compassion, and her understanding that the process of deep listening is the true road to world peace.
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