ABOUT ME
MEET THE AUTHOR
Jennie Miller Helderman championed women’s and children’s issues from the grassroots in Alabama to national levels, beginning with a call she took at a crisis center that led to the first women’s shelter in her hometown. She helped add a forensics component to a children’s advocacy center; chaired the boards of Voices for Alabama’s Children and later Alabama’s Department of Human Resources, (DHR). Charged with administering all the state’s social programs, DHR saw 520,000 clients per month. As an officer with her national fraternity, Jennie oversaw activities of chapters on 122 college campuses in the United States and Canada.
Jennie has taught school in rural Alabama, worked in a congressional office, and been photographer on an archeological research team at Pompeii.
A Pushcart Prize nominee, Jennie writes both fiction and nonfiction and has written hundreds of magazine articles. The one that stays close to her heart told how Sandy Hook teacher Kaitlin Roig saved her fifteen first-graders by hiding them in a bathroom. As the Sycamore Grows is her third book. She is now writing a memoir told as a collection of stories.