Shari MacDonald Strong is a freelance writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. Her essay “On Wanting a Girl” appeared in the Seal Press anthology It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters
Shari worked as an editor and copywriter in the publishing industry for 15 years (most recently as a freelance contractor for a division of Random House), and her writing has appeared in a number of publications including Geez magazine. She recently has appeared as a guest blogger at Leslie Morgan Steiner’s On Balance blog at the Washington Post as well as at Austin Mama.
The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change
Amy is co-author of 
, which she co-authored with Jennifer Baumgardner. They also collaborated on 
, and together they also created 
, 
and 
. Since 1995 she has been the voice behind 
Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and a senior news analyst for National Public Radio. From 1996 to 2002, she and Sam Donaldson coanchored the weekly ABC interview program, This Week. 
, an account of their now more than forty-year marriage and other marriages in American history.
The book immediately went onto the New York Times bestseller list, following a six-month run on the list by Roberts's first book on women in American history, 
. 
, the companion volume to 
. A mother of two and grandmother of six, she lives with her husband in Bethesda, Maryland. 
Riane Eisler’s story begins in Vienna, Austria, where as a small child she and her family had to flee from the Nazis. They emigrated to Cuba and eventually to the U.S. Riane has said that this trauma could have destroyed her, but instead, it led to her life-long quest to understand why horrible things like the Holocaust can happen – and what we can do so they do not happen again. Riane has become an eminent social scientist, attorney, author, and social activist. She is best known for her international bestseller 
, now in 23 languages, including Chinese, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, Japanese, and Arabic. 
Bernie Horn has worked on politics and public policy for the past 30 years as a campaign manager, political consultant, lawyer, lobbyist, communications director, and policy director. He is currently Senior Director for Policy and Communications at the 
For more on Miriam, see 
Nancy Folbre is a MacArthur fellow who teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 
and co-author of 
and 
. 
Ellen Bravo is a long-time activist for working women. She began working for 
and wrote 
. She’s also written numerous articles and reports, including “Quality Part-Time Options in Wisconsin,” funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and an article in the March 2007 special issue of the American Prospect. Ellen is frequently interviewed by the media and is a leading spokeswoman on working women’s issues. A business editor once described her talks as “moving, witty and sometimes bawdy.”
Mary Ann Mason is the first woman to be appointed Graduate Dean at University of California, Berkeley. A former lawyer, she can speak from personal experience about the struggle to balance family responsibilities and a fast-track career. A national expert on child custody issues, Mason is author of From Father's Property to Children's Rights, The Custody Wars, and The Equality Trap. 
Leslie Bennetts has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 1988, writing on subjects that have ranged from movie stars to priest pedophilia, industrial pollution and U.S. anti-terrorism policy. Her 2005 cover story on Jennifer Aniston was the best-selling issue in the magazine’s history to date, and the People magazine cover story about Bennetts’ interview with Aniston was the best-selling issue in the history of People. 
