Linda (Turner) Katz spent 40+ years in the child welfare field, as a foster/adoption worker, supervisor, manager, University of Washington lecturer, and retired after 10 years as director of the Court Appointed Special Advocates Program at the King County (WA) Superior Court. She served as a volunteer CASA for 40 years. Since retirement she has published a memoir, Sing Me Awake, about Mississippi in the 60's and her SSW friend, Donna Higgins. Her second book, Rise Up! Discoveries in an Urban First Grade, will be published in March 2017. She lives in Seattle with her husband, and has a grown son.