Abby Letcher, MD, joined the LVHN family in 2003 inspired by relationship-centered care and the tools of turtlecraft that here we could create community health care that makes a difference. She has always believed in the power of stories to change lives, and in medicine, our stories are the source of healing. Abby earned her bachelor’s degree in English and African studies from Yale University. During medical school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, she focused on community health, where she learned powerful life lessons about healing environments from community activists and role models in the Bridging the Gaps program way back in 1991. She stayed in Philadelphia to complete the Family Medicine Residency Program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, then moved to New York for love and joined an urban Family Medicine program with a practice in Bedford Stuyvesant. She uprooted again with her husband Andy and baby Anna in 2001 to Michigan to the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program to learn about community-based participatory action research in Flint and Detroit. Since coming to the Lehigh Valley, she has had the honor to help create the Lehigh Valley’s first community health center, The Neighborhood Health Centers of the Lehigh Valley (NHCLV). She is a member of the Community Exchange, Lehigh Valley’s Time Bank, and is deeply passionate about building strong, healthy communities.