Originally from Detroit, Linda Cedarbaum is a long time New Yorker and Connecticut resident with strong personal and family connections to Israel. Her career spans the worlds of early childhood and aging services, from early childhood mental health, education, toy invention, and picture book author to horticultural therapy with cognitively impaired elderly. She is currently active in innovative dementia services and community building as a program creator and non-profit board member with particular interest in organizational development and governance. This summer she is celebrating the birth of two grandsons in two months to add to her growing family coast to coast.