Lora Myers is a writer, film producer, and educator. As a producer and writer, she has worked in the USA, Italy, and Brazil on numerous award-winning documentaries, public television specials and feature film scripts. She has written feature articles for international magazines, two children’s books for TIME FOR KIDS, and grant proposals for many documentaries. She developed high-school and college-level curriculum guides for PEOPLE LIKE US, a documentary on American social class produced by the Center for New American Media, and for THE FREEDOM FILES, a video series produced by the ACLU. A specialist in the field of adult literacy, she created and administered New York City-based high-school equivalency programs for adults with less than an 8th grade education. She co-authored two books aimed at showing parents how to strengthen their children’s reading and writing abilities. For more than ten years, she was Curriculum Director and staff writer for an Emmy-winning public television show, TV411, and its companion website: both help low-literate adults learn the basics of reading, writing, math, finance, and health literacy.