Dr. Erika Vora is Professor Emeritus of Intercultural Communication at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota. Her previous book, “The Will to Live: A German Family’s Flight fro...view moreDr. Erika Vora is Professor Emeritus of Intercultural Communication at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota. Her previous book, “The Will to Live: A German Family’s Flight from Soviet Rule” depicts the traumatic flight of her own family trying to escape the approaching Russian Red Army during World War II. Professor Vora has been a Fulbright Scholar to Taiwan, Republic of China and Director of numerous international study programs in Germany. She has been a visiting scholar and intercultural communication consultant to universities and companies around the world. She is well published in the areas of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence movement to free India, managing interracial conflict in the United States, and listening across religious and cultural divides.view less