Carol Mithers is the Los Angeles-based author of Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets, and, with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee, Mighty Be Our Powers. She is also the author of Therapy Gone Mad. Her shorter work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, O the Oprah Magazine, Talk Poverty, DAME, Capital & Main Town & Country, Architectural Digest, Ladies' Home Journal and many more.