Myra Sack

Myra Sack is the author of Fifty-Seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter Finding Our Way, and founder of E-Motion, Inc., a nonprofit organization created to support community, movement and ritual to enhance coping and resilience. Myra's life changed when her older daughter, Havi, was diagnosed with a fatal neurodegenerative disease in December 2019. Havi died on January 20, 2021 of Tay-Sachs disease. E-Motion evolved out of a new way of living with the most difficult reality, blending Myra's lived experience and knowledge as a certified Compassionate Bereavement Care provider with her lifelong identity as an athlete and career in social impact.

Myra holds an MBA in Social Impact from Boston University, and graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College, where she captained the women's soccer team and earned All-America honors. She has devoted over a dozen years to youth-serving nonprofits, including serving as Chief Program and Strategy Officer at Squashbusters, Inc. and leading program development across Latin America for Soccer Without Borders. A writer, speaker, and activist, Myra serves on the Board of the Courageous Parents Network and lives in Boston with her husband Matt, their second daughter, Kaia, and son Ezra. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe Spotlight, Today.com, Hadassah Magazine, and Upworthy.