Rita Nakashima Brock

Rita Nakashima Brock is Senior Vice President and Director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America and the co-author of "Soul Repair: Recovering from the Moral Injury after War" with Gabriella Lettini (Beacon Press, 2012). In 2012 she co-founded, with Col. (Chaplain) Herman Keizer, Jr. (d.2017), the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School, Ft. Worth, Texas, and directed it until 2017. She is the co-author, with Rebecca Ann Parker, of "Proverbs of Ashes" and "Saving Paradise." From 2005-2008, she was senior editor in religion at The New Press in New York. She is author of many essays and co-author of Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States (Fortress, 1996). She was born in Fukuoka Japan, raised in the U.S. military, and lives in Alexandria, VA. Photo Credit: Yen Lin Studios, 2011.