Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, educator, editor, writer, and co-founder of CAMIR (Collective Approaches to Moral Injury Recovery). From 2017-2025, she was Senior Vice President and Director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America and the co-author of Soul Repair: Recovering from the Moral Injury after War with Gabriella Lettini (Beacon 2013). In 2012 she co-founded, with Col. (Chaplain) Herman Keizer, Jr. (d.2017), the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School, Ft. Worth, Texas, and directed it until 2017. She is an award-winning author and earlier was born in Fukuoka, Japan, raised in the U.S. military, and lives in Minnesota.