Deborah Sagner, LCSW, is the president of the Sagner Family Foundation. Ms. Sagner practiced as a family and play therapist working primarily with children and families. She is the author of The Family Play Genogram (1999), a guidebook for the play therapy technique she pioneered and popularized. Ms Sagner is the founder of Funding Freedom which builds support for Palestinian freedom in the philanthropic sector through education, advocacy, and communications. 

She has four grown children and seven grandchildren.