An award-winning, best-selling author, producer and children’s advocate, Gina Otto, is creating a global movement of girls helping girls around the world. Her first book, Cassandra's Angel, integrates her passion for the healing arts with her concern for young people.

With a focus on education and awareness, Gina travels throughout the United States and the world helping children, parents and teachers examine how “the way we live our lives and the choices that we make” impact society as a whole. Gina believes that getting and keeping young girls in school within the developing world will have a positive transformative impact globally.

Most recently, Gina spoke in Taiwan before 100,000 people on the steps of the presidential palace with Grand Master Hsing Yun and Taiwan President Ma to celebrate the Buddha’s birthday. She traveled to Sri Lanka and worked with children in the war zone and with victims of the Tsunami. She visited land mine fields in both Sri Lanka and Laos. She traveled to Vietnam and through the Somaly Mam Foundation, while in Cambodia, worked directly with young girls who are victims of the sexual slave trade.

Cassandra’s Angel is currently being produced as a Broadway musical with a focus on social advocacy. Partnering with Girl Scouts USA, Gina’s vision is helping to create socially conscious American girls reaching out to the girls of the world and bettering the lives of all.

Cassandra's Angel is a contemporary fairy tale, affecting people at very deep levels. It possesses a unique and enduring ability to touch adults as much as its younger audience. Although Cassandra's Angel is written about a little girl and has thousands of adult women as fans, Gina has a supportive base of fathers and grandfathers around the country as well who, not only identify with the story through the eyes of their daughters and granddaughters, but relate to it through their own experiences.

Gina hopes that the story of Cassandra’s Angel will help both children and adults recognize that each person has a gift and that life is about finding that gift and bringing it forth. She reminds children, living even in the most desolate circumstances, that they have a bright light within them and when they find that bright light they shine for the world.

Gina worked in film production, advertising, and the fashion industry for fifteen years. Originally from Denver, Colorado, she now resides in New York City.