Kathy Marshall Emerson is Director of National Resilience Resource Center LLC originally in University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development. She leads communities in securing major long-term government funding for collaborative community resilience projects enhancing the health of helpers. Evaluation outcomes with an n of 800 are statistically significant. NRRC bridges resilience research and community practice. See nationalresilienceresource.com Marshall Emerson teachers Spirituality and Resilience, a UM Center for Spirituality and Healing graduate course. She studied at the University of Southern California as a National Defense Education Act Fellow to complete a Masters and additional doctoral work in Communication.