Dena Levin was trained as a speech/language pathologist at Brooklyn College, receiving both B.A. and M.S. degrees. Throughout her professional life, she predominately worked in school settings. In fact, in 2014, the New York Daily News profiled her as a Hometown Hero in Education. She also taught public speaking at Kansas State University and was a supervisor of student clinicians in the Speech and Hearing Clinic at Brooklyn College. She has written two plays, Keep Walking and Hideand Seek. A novel, The Unexpected Connection, based loosely on her life as a prematurely single dating widow; and two children’s books, Let’s Be Kind Again and Why Is Everything Different? Ms. Levin enjoys imparting important messages in her writings using an engaging style.