Author & CEO, Ackerman Institute for the Family

Lois Braverman, is President and CEO of the Ackerman Institute for the Family. Her many publications and international presentations challenge the assumptions implicit in major schools of family therapy about women’s role in the family, in the workplace, and in the psychotherapeutic setting. She is founding editor of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy and author of the book : Women, Feminism and Family Therapy (The Haworth Press). Lois was the recipient of the 1994 American Family Therapy Academy’s “Innovative Contribution to Family Therapy Award” and the 2012 University of Iowa, College of Arts and Sciences’ Distinguished Alumni Award.