About the Authors

Ellen Schwartz and Suzanne Stoddard never take on small challenges. Their shared zest for life and for making a difference have brought them together on a path of personal, social, and spiritual transformation. Schwartz’s experience in the political and nonprofit worlds combined with Stoddard’s corporate and public-school teaching background offer a compelling view of the stresses and potentialities of life on the cusp of the new millenium.

Schwartz is the executive director of Invest in Kids, which she founded in 1998 to provide scholarships and mentors to low-income, at-risk youth. An earlier nonprofit she created raised public awareness about the entertainment industry’s negative influence in shaping children’s desires, behaviors, ...

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