Jeff Rasley is the author of eleven books; the most recent is You Have to Get Lost Before You Can Be Found, a Himalayan memoir. He has published numerous articles in academic and mainstream periodicals, including Newsweek, Chicago Magazine, ABA Journal, Family Law Review, The Journal of Communal Societies, and Friends Journal. He is an award-winning photographer and his pictures taken in the Himalayas and Caribbean and Pacific islands have been published in several journals. He has appeared as a featured guest on over eighty radio and podcast programs to discuss the culture of Nepal, religion and politics, and writing and publishing. Rasley is a retired lawyer and director of six nonprofit corporations, including the Indianapolis Peace & Justice Center, University of Chicago Alumni Club, Phi Beta Kappa of Indiana, Basa Village Foundation, and Scientech Foundation. He is U.S. liaison for the Himalayan expedition company Adventure GeoTreks Ltd. Rasley has taught courses on “culturally sensitive development” and philanthropy at Butler and Marian Universities and memoir writing at the Indiana Writing Center.