Michaela Haas

She is the author of Bouncing Forward: Transforming Bad Breaks into Breakthroughs (Atria/Enliven, 2015),[1] Crazy America (RandomHouse/Goldmann, 2017), Dakini Power (Shambhala, 2013) and co-author of The Ghetto-Swinger (1996).

She is a contributing editor for David Byrne's Reasons to Be Cheerful, a columnist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung,[2] and she has contributed to magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times,[3] the Huffington Post, Mother Jones,[4] Al Jazeera,[5] and Rotary International Magazine.

"Coco Schumann, the Ghetto-Swinger" is the true story of a Jewish entertainer who survived the Nazi-Camps by playing for his life.

[8] In 1997, she left Germany to follow her passion for traveling and studying while working as a freelance correspondent from Nepal, Northern India and France.

She is the author of a book about posttraumatic growth, "Bouncing Forward: Transforming Bad Breaks into Breakthroughs" (Atria/Enliven, 2015) and a book about female teachers of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping The Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West,[9] published by Snow Lion/Shambhala in 2013.