Deborah Sagner, LCSW, is president of the Sagner Family Foundation. Sagner practiced as a family and play therapist working primarily with children and families. She is author of The Family Play Genogram (1999), a guidebook for the play therapy technique she pioneered and popularized, and is the founder of Funding Freedom, which builds support for Palestinian freedom in philanthropy through education, advocacy, and communications. She has four grown children and seven grandchildren.