Joanne Lelewer Harpel
President, Coping After Suicide
Joanne L. Harpel, President of Coping After Suicide and President and CEO of Rethink The Conversation, is an international authority on suicide bereavement. Joanne is the former longtime Senior Director for Public Affairs and Postvention for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the recipient of the American Association of Suicidology's Survivor of the Year Award, and serves as an advisor to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. She lost her younger brother to suicide in 1993.