Bio

Deborah Siegel, PhD, is an expert on gender, politics, and the unfinished business of “feminism” across generations, as well as a thought leadership coach who specializes in helping women with expertise find and amplify their public voice. She is the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild (Palgrave Macmillan), co-editor of the literary anthology Only Child (Harmony/Random House), founder of the blog Girl w/Pen (housed at The Society Pages, a publishing endeavor supported by W.W. Norton) and co-founder of both the boundary-breaking webjournal The Scholar & Feminist Online (housed at Barnard College) and the website She Writes—the largest online community for women who write, in the world (25,000+ active members). She is a Senior Facilitator with The OpEd Project; a guest instructor at StoryStudio Chicago and at Ragdale, where she has been the recipient of multiple writing residencies; and a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in venues including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN.com, The Forward, Slate, The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, Ms., More, and Psychology Today, in multiple anthologies, and on her blogs. A dynamic speaker with a personal approach, she lectures and teaches workshops nationwide. She has been featured on The Today Show, The Wendy Williams Experience, and at TEDx.

Deborah received her doctorate in English and American Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ever-curious about the latest forms for disseminating ideas, she is currently engaged in a multimedia experiment in thinking aloud and in community about the gendering of earliest childhood, through a Pinterest Board (Tots in Genderland), a Tumblr blog (The Pink and Blue Diaries), a graphic memoir, and more. She lives in Chicagoland with her husband and their five-year-old boy/girl twins. Learn more at www.deborahsiegelphd.com.

Follow Deborah on Twitter @deborahgirlwpen.

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