{"id":119,"name":"Leonore Gordon","url":"","description":"Leonore Gordon lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is a retired licensed family therapist, a poet, a longtime poetry educator with T&amp;W, a writer, and a social activist. Her poetry, nonfiction articles, and translations have appeared in a variety of publications, including\u00a0<em>Teachers &amp; Writers Magazine<\/em>, <em>The Council on Interracial Books for Children Bulletin<\/em>, <em>Contemporary Israeli Literature<\/em>, <em>Triquarterly Review<\/em>, <em>Nurturing Peacemakers in Our Students<\/em>, and in <em>the anthology Rethinking Our Classrooms<\/em>. Gordon has been a political activist all of her adult life, and as a result of her diagnosis of Parkinson\u2019s Disease in 1999, she is now educating health-care professionals and members of the PD community through presentations, articles and a blog about living with PD.","link":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/author\/leonoregordon\/","slug":"leonoregordon","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Group-receiving-award-at-Gracie-Mansion-e1507314466248-1.jpg","48":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Group-receiving-award-at-Gracie-Mansion-e1507314466248-1.jpg","96":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Group-receiving-award-at-Gracie-Mansion-e1507314466248-1.jpg"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}