Donna is an award-winning science journalist, author of six books, and an internationally-recognized speaker whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion. Her newest book, The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine was named one of the best books of 2020 by Wired magazine. Donna’s other books include Childhood Disrupted and The Last Best Cure. She is also the creator and founder of the trauma healing program, Your Healing Narrative: Write-to-Heal With Neural Re-Narrating™, an online narrative writing course for educators, practitioners, and individuals.
Her writing has appeared in Wired, The Boston Globe, Stat, The Washington Post and Health Affairs. She has appeared on The Today Show and NPR and is a regular speaker at universities, including the 2020 Harvard Division of Science Library Series, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Arizona. Her next book, which will be published in 2022 by Random House, Girls on the Edge: The New Science that Explains Why Our Daughters Are Struggling—and What Will Help Them Thrive, looks at today’s growing female adolescent mental health crisis, and examines how trauma affects the female brain and body.