Elizabeth Smart Joins ABC, Should Counterbalance the Nancy Grace Effect – Babble (blog)
Monica Bielanko was born and raised on the wild frontier of late 1970′s Utah. She once went to see an unknown band from Philly and three months later she married the guitar player. They are still hitched six years later. She lived in Brooklyn, New York for a few years and she misses the Big Apple bad. She works in TV news. She loves nachos and beer and music and books and her two black labs. Her heart belongs to her toddler, Violet and her newborn little boy, Henry. Oh yeah, she also likes wine. When she’s not babbling you can find her at thegirlwho.net.
Sierra Black is a blogger, writer and mother. Her personal essays have appeared in Mothering Magazine, the New York Times and Babble. Sierra writes primarily about parenting, personal finance and green living. When she’s not chasing deadlines or toddlers, Sierra spends her time gardening, crafting and finding new non-toxic ways to get crayon off the walls. Before she answered to Mommy, Sierra was a features reporter for the Eagle-Tribune newspaper. To follow her adventures parenting three kids in the Boston area check out her personal blog, ChildWild.
Meredith Carroll is a native New Yorker who now lives in Aspen, Colo., where she writes her weekly, award-winning newspaper column, Meredith Pro Tem. She also contributes regularly to The Huffington Post and has appeared in other publications such as The New York Times and Town & Country. She is a former TV producer and radio host, and enjoyed (or suffered through) a brief and undistinguished career in feature films as well. Rush Limbaugh once called her a babe, although she’s not sure if that’s something about which she should be bragging. Read more at MeredithCarroll.com.
Carolyn Castiglia is a comedian and writer based in New York who is known for wowing audiences with her high-energy stand-up and brilliantly funny freestyle rap. You may recognize her hip-hop alter ego, Miss CKC, from Comedy Central, VH1 and MTV2. Carolyn’s web videos have been nominated for an ECNY Award and featured in two issues of Entertainment Weekly magazine. Her jokes have appeared in Time Out New York, The New York Post, The Idiot’s Guide to Jokes and Life & Style magazine. You can find Carolyn’s writing elsewhere on online at MarieClaire.com and The Huffington Post. She blogs at http://carolyncastiglia.blogspot.com.
Sunny Chanel resides in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, beagle and a tarantula named Lulu. She has strung words together for the SF Weekly, Bust, and Jane among others and currently writes for Babble’s Famecrawler and Strollerderby blog.
Meagan Francis is the mother of five kids ages two to teen (four boys followed by one very protected and indulged little girl.) She’s the author of four books, including The Happiest Mom: 10 Secrets To Enjoying Motherhood and One Year To An Organized Life With Baby and has written about raising kids and enjoying motherhood for dozens of magazines and websites including Babble, Parenting, Good Housekeeping, and Disney’s Family.com. She also appears regularly in the media and recently sported some seriously flippy hair on Fox & Friends. Meagan believes motherhood doesn’t have to be a drag, and that you can use the words “happy” and “mother” in the same sentence: find out more at her blog, The Happiest Mom.
Madeline Holler, writer and freelance journalist, has contributed essays to Babble since the site’s launch in 2006 and has blogged for Strollerderby since 2007. Her work has appeared elsewhere in print and on the web, including Salon. A native of the Midwest, she lives in Long Beach, Calif., where she’s raising two daughters and a son.
Dawn Damalas Meehan is a single mom, living in Chicago with her six children, ages 16-4. She’s the author of Because I Said So and You’ll Lose the Baby Weight (and Other Lies About Pregnancy and Childbirth). When she’s not blogging, she can be found playing chauffeur, getting buried under a mountain of laundry, or explaining to her kids why they can’t have an indoor Slip ‘N Slide or a pet squirrel.
Wendy Michaels enjoys her career as an entertainment writer, covering the celeb buzz at the TV Crunch and Movie Crunch blogs. She loves celebrity gossip on any level, from A-listers right down to those pesky reality stars. Wendy lives in Central New York, where she enjoys time with her husband and two children.
Rebecca Odes has been writing about parenthood, women and girls online and off for over 15 years. She is the co-author of 4 books, including From the Hips, a guide to pregnancy and becoming a parent, and Deal With It, a bestselling life guide for teen girls, inspired by gURL.com, the site she co-founded in 1996. When not trying to make sense of the world through words, Rebecca makes art and music with her band, Ma’am. She also has some kids, and lives in New York.
Stephanie Precourt is a freelance writer and the director/producer of the Listen To Your Mother Show in Northwest Indiana, but her biggest successes so far are her four children ranging in ages 10 down to 2. She is passionate about attachment parenting and homebirth but has honestly tried every method of how to raise and birth her kids and is basically just doing the best she can, okay? She shares a commentary about her daily life at her blog, Adventures In Babywearing even though she is all done wearing her babies. Now they just wear her out.
Danielle Smith is a storyteller, video correspondent, spokesperson, speaker and now author with Mom, Incorporated. Moving from her role as an award winning television News Anchor and Reporter into the world of social media, Danielle is now excited to be a featured vlogger for Babble. She is the founder of both ExtraordinaryMommy.com and DanielleSmithMedia.com and proud mom to two small people, a daughter and son.
Danielle Sullivan is the mom of three, editor by trade, writer at heart, and native New Yorker. She has worked in the parenting magazine world for over 10 years, is the former Managing Editor of NYMetroParents, and has written for NY Family, Midwifery Today and Long Island Woman. She lives with her husband and children in Brooklyn, NY. When not on the little league field, at a school event or in a pediatrician’s waiting room, Danielle can be found listening to a Dave Matthews song and writing away at her computer. Visit her at Just Write Mom.