Family & Parenting

Khaliah Ali's talent as a passionate communicator is limitless. An in-demand speaker on weight-related issues, Khaliah is committed to helping young women everywhere...

Dr. Traci Baxley is a professor, consultant, parenting coach, speaker, mother to five bi-racial children, and the creator of Social Justice Parenting. An educator for...

Leslie Bennetts has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 1988, and is the author of the ground-breaking and controversial The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving...

Jenny Bowen is the CEO and founder of Half the Sky. A former screenwriter and independent filmmaker, Bowen founded Half the Sky in 1998 in order to give something back...

Sophie Brickman is a writer, reporter, and editor whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Saveur, The San Francisco Chronicle,...

Andrew Bridge spent 11 years in the Los Angeles County foster care system and went on to earn a scholarship to Wesleyan, become a Fulbright Scholar, and graduate from...

Harriet Brown is an eclectic and curiosity-driven writer and speaker whose work on subjects ranging from fat acceptance to forgiveness appears in the New York Times Magazine,...

Betsy Brown Braun is a Child Development Specialist, a Parent Educator, and a Multiple Birth Parenting Consultant. With a masters degree in human development and teaching...

Andrea J. Buchanan is the co-author with Miriam Peskowitz of the phenomenal New York Times and international best-seller The Daring Book For Girls (Collins). The empowering...

“[Manic] is a must-read for all those, clinicians and lay persons alike, who are interested in deeply understanding the experience of having bipolar disorder.”—Dr....

Richard M. Cohen is an award-winning broadcast journalist and author of the New York Times best-sellers Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, A Chorus of Hope...

Roni Cohen-Sandler is a clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in parenting; the issues of women and adolescent girls; mother-daughter relationships;...

Tracy Dennis-Tiwary Ph.D. is a professor in the Psychology Department at Hunter College, The City University of New York, director of the Interdisciplinary Center for...

Terrell Harris Dougan became active in advocating for the mentally disabled when she was 12. Her sister, Irene, then six, had just been diagnosed as mentally disabled...

Poopa Dweck is the preeminent authority on the food, ways, and customs of the Jews of Aleppo, the world’s largest and most flourishing community of Sephardic Jews....

Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life....

Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist, former foreign correspondent, writing consultant, author of four books, and mother of two sons....

Dr. Renee Engeln has been a professor for eleven years at Northwestern University, where she teaches about psychopathology, the psychology of women and gender, social...