Lorissa utilizes the stories of various women in power through time to explain how they inspired her to accomplish her dreams. Through her story, she inspires and empowers other women to do the same.
Lorissa Rinehart writes about women, politics, war, and their points of intersection.

Her writing has recently appeared in Hyperallergic, Perfect Strangers, and Narratively, among other publications. Her biography, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent (St. Martin’s Press) has received rave reviews from The Wall Street Journal, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Publishers Weekly, among numerous other publications. Her forthcoming book, A Nation Unto Herself, the biography of Jeannette Rankin, the First Woman to Serve in Congress, is due out in 2025 (St. Martin’s Press).

When not writing she can be found photographing the natural world impinging upon the urban landscape or digging in the dirt with her husband and two sons in Santa Barbara, California.

She holds an MA from NYU in Experimental Humanities and a BA in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx