Writers of the World – Deb Brandon, Donna Figurski, Su Meck and Jeannette Davidson-Mayer Discussion Panel
Meet the Panelists:
Donna O'Donnell Figurski
Donna O’Donnell Figurski s a wife, mother, granny, teacher, playwright, actor, director, picture-book reviewer, jewelry designer, photographer, writer, and most recently, author of Prisoners without Bars: A Caregiver’s Tale.
Donna is the host of Another Fork in the Road on the Brain Injury Radio Network, and is the creator of her blog, Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury. She lives with her husband/best friend, David, in the Arizona desert.
Su Meck
Su Meck suffered a TBI in 1988 when she was twenty-two. One (of many) unfortunate results of that accident was that she lost all of her memories. Since 1988, Su has had to re-learn how to survive in this crazy world, essentially “growing up” with her three (now adult) children while simultaneously attempting to be a wife to her husband, Jim. Su graduated from Smith College in 2014 with a B.A. in music along with a concentration in book studies (just three months after the publication of her memoir, I Forgot to Remember).
Jeannette Davidson-Mayer
Jeannette Davidson-Mayer is a veteran caregiver and military family advocate. She is a graduate of the University of Phoenix and has spent over ten years working in human resources, public relations and business building. Jeannette’s husband is a combat veteran who served in Iraq, where he used five of his nine lives. Upon his return, Jeannette began her transition into developing a caregiver strategy supporting her husband’s multiple side effect of war and ever changing daily new normal.
Deb Brandon
Deb Brandon, PhD has been a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University since 1991. She has competed nationally and internationally in dragon boating. She is also a respected textile artist, a brain injury survivor, a public speaker, and an award winning author. Her books are “But My Brain Had Other Ideas: A Memoir of Recovery from Brain Injury,” and “Threads Around the World: From Arabian Weaving to Batik in Zimbabwe.”
