Joanne Patti Munisteri is an educator, field researcher, analyst, writer, as well as a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner with decades of work in conflict zones and remote regions worldwide. She's been a contractor for the U.S. State Department, USAID, DOD, universities and ministries of education in many countries.
She is a graduate Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (USA), Massey University (NZ) and received her diploma of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) from New Zealand and trained with the Shaolin at Yun Tai International Martial Arts Training Center in China.
Jo is a certified combat analyst and was trained with the US Army as part of the Human Terrain System units.
Author of four books (memoirs and poetry) and numerous published articles in journals and online; Jo is the mother of Sequoia and Denali Schmidt. Her son Denali and ex-husband Marty Schmidt (USAF Pararescueman and International mountain guide) died on K2 in Pakistan in 2013.
Jo has lived, trained and worked in Israel at various times over her life including on kibbutzim, in schools, and in clinics.
