Dr. Enchante´ Franklin, Disaster Expert, Forensic Social Work Consultant, Community Mental Health Advocate, and Author, is a native of New Orleans, LA (The Big Easy). She is currently the CEO of Enchanted Links, LLC., a multi- social services consulting firm. Prior to entering the academic profession, Enchante´ served five years as a New Orleans Police Officer during and after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. She earned her Bachelor in Social Work from Southern University at New Orleans and received her Master’s degree in Social Work- Southern University at New Orleans. She completed her second Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice also at Southern University at New Orleans. She earned a Doctoral degree of Social Work Policy, Planning and Administration at the Whitney M. Young Jr., School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University. Her dedicated practice and scholarship interests include the following: The Afrocentric perspective, historical trauma perspective, resilience theories, social ecological perspective, community mental health treatment, psychiatric recidivism, suicide prevention and awareness, community and cultural resilience, government policies and disaster mitigation, and her most favored woman of color and disaster recovery. As a community advocate, she travels between the United States and Internationally serving multiple individuals, communities, and organizations affected by persistent mental illness and community trauma using prayer interventions.

She is dedicated to the art of prose, storytelling, and poetry writing through the lens of ethnography, spirituality and cultural resilience. She is the author of The Blue Lotus Flower and The Bloom Effect (December 2016) which tells her story of resilience-pushing through the traumas of an impoverished, flooded city; overcoming childhood pain and community violence in New Orleans. She is a servant through prayer, written words, cultural teachings and holistic healing methods for resilient individuals, families and communities.