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Donnie Kanter Winokur

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Born

in Plainfield ,N.J., The United States

Website

http://www.thechancerchronicles.com

Genre

Memoir, Biography, Psychology

Member Since

September 2009

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Donnie Kanter Winokur is among the Amazon Top 50 Most Popular Authors in Biographies and Memoirs and the Top 100 Books in Biographies and Memoirs.

Donnie was featured as an Emerging Author at the 2017 AJC Decatur Book Festival, the largest independent book festival in the country. Her story will not only resonate with families who live with similar struggles, but demonstrate the power of unconditional love and perseverance from a family and a dog that you will never forget.

Donnie is an award winning writer, international speaker, and human rights advocate. She has contributed to Reader’s Digest, Guidepost, Marie Claire, and Adoption Today. Donnie’s story was featured in “Wonder Dog” for the New York Times Magazine in 2012 and became one Donnie Kanter Winokur is among the Amazon Top 50 Most Popular Authors in Biographies and Memoirs and the Top 100 Books in Biographies and Memoirs.

Donnie is an award winning writer, international speaker, and human rights advocate. She has contributed to Reader’s Digest, Guidepost, Marie Claire, and Adoption Today. Donnie’s story was featured in “Wonder Dog” for the New York Times Magazine in 2012 and became one of the ten most shared and searched for articles that year.

Chancer- How One Good Boy Saved Another, is her first full-length book after publishing two award-winning children's books. A native of New Jersey, Donnie studied theater at Catholic University (“because being a nun was out of the question”) before transferring to Emory University in Atlanta, where she graduated with a degree in psychology. There her passion for drama evolved from repertory theater to commercials and voice-overs.

After honing her skills writing and producing advertising campaigns for clients throughout the Southeast, she then created award-winning projects for Discovery, The Smithsonian Institute, and Broderbund/Random House. >In Chancer – How One Good Boy Saved Another, Donnie brings you into her world of developmental disabilities with her poignancy, unashamed honesty, and often-irreverent humor, especially for a rabbi’s wife. She doesn’t mind being upstaged by children or dogs, especially her son, Iyal, and his service dog,

Donnie shares her journey to adoptive parenthood along with her son’s devastating diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome, the most severe expression of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). After an exhausting pursuit of medications, therapies, and interventions only left Iyal more frustrated—and their family more desperate—Donnie tried something outside-the-box. Consequently, in 2008, Donnie’s son, Iyal, obtained an intelligent and irresistible ninety-pound golden retriever named Chancer, the first certified FASD assistance dog in the world.

A dynamic and in-demand speaker, Donnie is committed to preventing what she calls “the perfect storm,” the failed opportunity for our justice system to support challenged individuals in dire need of compassion and protection. She remains a dedicated champion for shifting our cultural paradigm and changing public misperceptions about marginalized individuals.

Donnie and her husband, Harvey, the founding rabbi of a reform synagogue, live north of Atlanta with Iyal and their daughter, Morasha. Their family unexpectedly lost Chancer at eleven years old, to an aggressive illness. But his successor, Quinn, also trained as an FASD service dog was well mentored by his older brother. Autumn, their cat, tolerates the Quinn, while enjoying an occasional swat.

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	Chancer: How One Good Boy Saved Another 4.12 avg rating — 749 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Invisible World: Life With My Brother, His Disability and His Service Dog by Morasha R. Winokur, Donnie Kanter Winokur (Goodreads Author) (With) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nuzzle: Love Between a Boy and His Service Dog by Donnie Kanter Winokur (Goodreads Author), William H. Simmons (Photographer), 4. Paws for Ability (Photographer) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“While our life remains more chaotic than not, we continue to land on our blistered feet, drag each other out of the quicksand, beg for forgiveness as we wander out of the doghouse, and dig for the humor beneath our grief. So our family, four-pawed members included, continues to bound forward celebrating our canine connection and sharing hope with all who need healing.”
― Donnie Kanter Winokur

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