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AARP Caregiving Expert: Lee Woodruff

Lee Woodruff is an author, public speaker and journalist.

A former contributing reporter for CBS This Morning and Good Morning America, she's the best-selling author of three books as well as numerous articles and essays. She now runs a communications and media training business, working with clients around the globe.

After a roadside bomb in Iraq injured her husband, ABC News journalist Bob Woodruff, the couple founded the Bob Woodruff Foundation. The foundation has invested about $70 million in innovative programs to meet the needs of injured veterans, their families and caregivers nationwide.

In addition to the Washington Irving Award for fiction for her novel Those We Love Most, Woodruff has earned numerous national awards and recognition for her work and advocacy on behalf of veterans and caregivers.

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Professional

Consultant, executive communication and media training
Contributing reporter, Good Morning America, 2012 to 2016
Contributing reporter, CBS This Morning, 2008 to 2011

Books

Those We Love Most, 2012
Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress, 2009
In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing, 2008, written with Bob Woodruff

Select associations and memberships

Board of trustees, Colgate University
Board member, Musician Treatment Center of Austin
Member, Veterans’ Family, Caregiver and Survivor Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Education