Deborah Plummer is an award-winning author of Racing Across the Lines: Changing Race Relations through Friendships (Pilgrim Press), the Editor of Handbook of Diversity Management (Rowman & Littlefield) and Advancing Inclusion: A Guide for Effective Diversity Council and Employee Resource Group Membership (Half Dozen Publications). She has also written for Diversity Executive and Boston Globe Magazine.  As a regularly featured blogger for Huffington Post, commentator for numerous media outlets, and keynote speaker, Deborah’s engaging, enthusiastic and entertaining style brings home an instructive message without sacrificing substance. Her fiction work, They Still Call Me Sister and The Family That Stays Together brings to life a diverse cast of characters and breaks open a new genre of mystery with psycho-social themes.She is a proud board member of GrubStreet, one of the nation's leading creative writing center.