Resumen biográfico

Claudia Yelin es licenciada en Psicología (Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires) y Master en Asistencia Social (Catholic University of America). Cinturón Negro en el arte marcial Aikido.
Argentina, emigró en 1983, con su marido y sus dos hijas pequeñas, a los Estados Unidos. Radicada en Washington D.C., estableció allí su práctica profesional en el seno de la comunidad internacional, donde se dedica a la atención psicológica de niños y adultos. Su entrenamiento en el arte marcial Aikido le permitió integrar esta disciplina a la realización de talleres de fortalecimiento personal para la mujer.

Es autora de dos libros :
Emigrar. En busca de un espacio de amparo,  un  ensayo autobiográfico publicado en Argentina (2003) y en España (2008)
Entre mujeres, una novela que ahonda en reflexiones sobre la mujer, el amor y el vínculo madre-hija.  Argentina (2009)

Es autora de numerosas ponencias y artículos sobre la especialidad y de una serie de cuentos infantiles sobre el tema del exilio, de próxima publicación.

Biographical Sketch

Claudia Yelin was brought up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated and pursued post-graduate training in clinical psychology at the University of Buenos Aires. In the early 1980s she relocated to the Washington D.C. area, where she completed a Masters Degree in Social Work at Catholic University. She has a black belt in the martial art of Aikido.
For the past 30 years Ms. Yelin has worked counseling children and adolescents, as well as couples and families. She has participated in a variety of different professional meetings and lectured in her area of expertise both in the United States and abroad.

In the last decade, Ms. Yelin has focused her research on the immigration process and its effect on individuals and families. As a result, she has published Emigrar. En busca de un espacio de amparo, an autobiographical book where she recounts her personal and professional experiences as an immigrant. Her first novel, Entre mujeres, was published in September of 2009.

She is currently writing a series of children books that will serve as tools for exploring immigration experiences for children and families alike.