An international authority on the aftermath of suicide with 20+ years of experience, Joanne L. Harpel, MPhil, JD, has a nationwide practice providing guidance and support to individuals and families, schools and colleges, faith communities, and workplaces coping with suicide loss. She also conducts professional education on suicide bereavement and postvention for mental health clinicians, health care professionals, clergy, funeral directors, and educators. Joanne is a former attorney and the longtime survivor of her own brother’s suicide. She is the former Senior Director for Public Affairs and Postvention for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and a founding co-lead of SAMHSA’s National Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force. She received the American Association of Suicidology’s Survivor of the Year Award and sits on its Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force and Workplace Committee. Joanne is a seasoned guest lecturer, including at the United Nations, on Capitol Hill, and for the American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, International Association for Suicide Prevention, and Bereaved Parents of the USA. She’s trained the chaplains of the U.S. Army and Veterans Administration, the psychologists affiliated with the South Korea National Police Agency, and the crisis response team of a major public university. A cum laude graduate of Amherst College, she also holds graduate degrees from Cambridge University and the New York University School of Law.