A professor, motivational speaker, and best-selling author, Terri Banner Fitzsimmons (T.K.) has been in the field of education most of her adult life as a teacher of all grades and a Sociology Professor for twenty years. Knowing first-hand how hard it is to return to school, T.K. has also served as director of an Independent Study Program, helping adults earn their diplomas, just like she did. However, in 2018, T.K. faced the ultimate catastrophe when a massive wildfire raged through Paradise, California, the town she lived in, and she lost everything she had, including her identity. Devastated but thankful to have survived, T.K. was inspired to put pen to paper and wrote about her incredible journey of hope and recovery in “Phoenix Rising from the Ashes.” She would write one more book about the ordeal and give countless interviews about her orde ...