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Lori Hope is the author of the widely-read book, Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know.  Lori, a cancer survivor herself, speaks and writes about the importance of communicating compassionately with those rendered especially vulnerable by any disease, trauma, or other difficult condition. A producer of more than twenty documentaries that have garnered dozens of awards, and a former medical reporter and newspaper editor, Lori uses her skill and passion as a communicator to inspire others to find the pleasure and value in supporting those who are suffering.
Lori's work has appeared in Newsweek and on the Oprah show and her commentaries have been broadcast on radio stations nationwide. Her book has been featured in numerous media, including the Wall Street Journal, Time and Redbook magazines, The San Francisco Chronicle, and ABC News. As a public speaker, Lori has worked with The American Cancer Society, the Jewish Federation, the American Thoracic Society, and many other organizations and institutions, including UCLA, UCSF, and Tulane University School of Medicine. Her messages of hope, humor, and the importance of compassionate communication are vital to not only people who care for someone with cancer, but inspirational to anyone who wants to help a friend, colleague, or loved one who is coping with trauma or disease. Background
Lori grew up in the St. Louis, Missouri suburbs of Clayton and Richmond Heights and graduated from Washington University with a degree in philosophy after studying aesthetics, linguistics, literature, and anthropology. Intrigued by the German poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke's words, "Learn to love the questions themselves" and "Ask yourself in the still hours of the night: Must I write?" Hope embarked on a career of writing and producing to plumb life's questions and themes and enlist the help of a greater community to provide the answers.
After stints as a general assignment reporter, news anchor, and medical correspondent, Hope became a staff producer at the NBC television affiliate in Portland, Oregon, making documentaries that aired mostly on weeknights, pre-empting Prime Time shows. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1993 and became an independent writer, producer, and media and public affairs consultant, later returning to journalism as a newspaper editor, commentator, and columnist. Hope says her mission in all of her work, including her writing, speaking, and public outreach, is to reflect the wisdom of others as well as share her own insights. As Edith Wharton wrote, "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
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