Dr. Elizabeth Debold is one of the world’s foremost authorities on girls’ and women’s development and author of the bestselling Mother Daughter Revolution (Addison-Wesley, 1993; Bantam, 1994). For the past three decades, she has worked on the front lines of gender and cultural evolution as activist, researcher, journalist, spiritual explorer, and transformative educator. Her lifelong pursuit of freedom, creativity, and equality between the sexes has taken her from door-to-door activism for the Equal Rights Amendment to groundbreaking research on gender development at Harvard University to cutting-edge cultural and spiritual investigation at EnlightenNext magazine.

Widely acknowledged for the power of her insights into women’s and men’s development, Dr. Debold has brought those insights to bear through the innovative education programs that she has developed. She created and directed the Ms. Foundation for Women’s Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women, which funded cutting-edge programs for girls nation-wide, and more recently was the architect of the Girls Leadership Program at Miss Hall’s School. She has developed groundbreaking women’s courses and seminars at EnlightenNext and served as Academic Director of the Master of Arts program in Conscious Evolution at The Graduate Institute. She has also taught at Harvard University and the New School for Social Research.

Dr. Debold has been sought out as an expert on girls, women, and the evolution of culture by major media outlets in the U.S. and abroad and has lectured in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. She has consulted to numerous films and television programs, as well as to foundations, nonprofit educational organizations, corporate law firms, and businesses. Her work has appeared in academic publications, popular media, and international anthologies as well as in EnlightenNext magazine where she was Senior Editor for nearly a decade. She has made multiple appearances on Oprah, Good Morning America, and NPR, and was featured in a major Lifetime documentary on girls’ development. Her most recent film, A Seat at the Table, based on her work with girls at Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was released in Fall 2012. She has recently founded Artemis Forum, an online space for thought leadership on women and leadership.