Pat Loewi

SHOUT is Pat's first non-fiction book and in March 2016, SHOUT was the number one best-selling Paperback Nonfiction book in the Denver area (according to the Denver Post's best-seller list). Pat grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she taught English and history before moving to Washington, D.C. Pat worked on Capitol Hill doing press work in those halcyon days when Congress was collaborating. She is currently living in Denver, Colorado, near her daughter Kim, Kim's husband Jeff, and her three granddaughters. (Pat's husband, Andy, passed away from kidney cancer in 2007). Pat has spent most of her professional career in telecommunications, radio ownership and nonprofit work. She served as CEO for Special Olympics Colorado as well as the Kempe Foundation for Abused and Neglected Children. However, she admits to learning most about kids who are "different" from her daughter Sammy's experiences of feeling marginalized. Sammy was in a wheelchair with Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy from the age of 10 until her untimely death at age 22. Pat is therefore motivated to change the culture by promoting kindness, compassion and acceptance of kids who are "different."