Words for Women

Lori Heninger is a poet and nonprofit executive. Her 30-plus years of experience in US- and internationally-based work has shaped her thinking and writing. She is the author of poems published in The Bangalore Review, The Dillydoun Review and other journals, as well as Managing As Mission: Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change, and a book of poetry for children titled Outside/Inside/Outside. Lori graduated from Columbia University with a Masters in Social Work and from City University with a PhD in Social Welfare. She is the Executive Director of The Montclair Fund for Women, and lives with her husband, two dogs, a cat and six chickens in rural New Jersey, and blows glass as a hobby.