Immaculée Ilibagiza is a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that took the lives of one million Tutsis. Immaculee's entire family was killed, except for one brother. She found shelter at a pastor's home, where she and seven other women hid in a 3-by-4-foot bathroom for 91 days. During those 91 days, Immaculée found her faith, taught herself English, and most incredibly, committed herself to peace, hope and forgiveness, even for those who had murdered her family. After the Genocide finally ended, Immaculée found work at the United Nations, emigrating from Rwanda to the United States in 1998. She has gone on the receive five honorary doctoral degrees, write seven books about her faith and her life journey, and is the recipient of the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace.Immaculée's first book, Left to Tell; Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (Hay House) was released in March of 2006. Left to Tell quickly became a New York Times Best Seller.

To date, it has been translated into seventeen languages and has sold nearly two million copies. Immaculée's story is available as a documentary entitled The Diary of Immaculée. Immaculée's six additional books are - Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide, Our Lady of Kibeho, If Only We Had Listened, Visit from Heaven, and The Boy Who Met Jesus, and The Rosary: The Prayer that Saved my Life. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, The CBS Early Show, CNN, EWTN, CBS Evening News, The Aljazeera Network and in The New York Times, USA Today, Newsday, and many other media outlets. Today, Immaculée is regarded as one of world's leading speakers on faith, hope and forgiveness. She has shared this universal message with world leaders, school children, multinational corporations, churches, and conferences around the world, including a recent presentation to over 200,000 people in Sao Paulo, Brazil.