E-mail: rnemzoff@brandeis.edu

Dr. Ruth Nemzoff is the author of Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008). She holds a doctorate in social policy from Harvard University, an MA in counseling from Columbia University and a BA from Barnard College. She has served as Assistant Minority Leader in the New Hampshire legislature and as the New Hampshire Deputy Commissioner of Health and Welfare. While serving as a visiting scholar at the Wellesley Center for Research, she wrote a historical analysis of the "Changing Perceptions of Mothers of Children with Disabilities" and has also published articles about environmental advertising and women in politics and about Jewish intermarriage. Ruth has founded a nursery school, a counseling service and the National Women's Legislators' Lobby. She has served on multiple boards, including New Hampshire's United Way and Boston's Jewish Family and Children's Services. She currently serves as chair of the Advisory Committee, Center for Women, Politics, and Public Policy and is the Vice-chair of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women. Dr. Nemzoff has spoken in over 200 venues around the world about fostering good intergenerational relationships. She is currently working on a new book on in-law relationships. She and her husband have four adult children and six grandchildren. Her papers are archived at Schlesinger Library, Harvard University.