MERYL FRANK is president of Makeda Global Network, an international consulting firm that works with thousands of women worldwide. Frank has been an activist, mayor, ambassador, and champion for women’s leadership and political participation worldwide. In May of 2022, she was appointed to a seat on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. In Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hachette Books), Frank offers a mystery woven into a family memory as she unfolds the tale of her cousin, Franya Winter, a leading light of Vilna’s Yiddish theater.