Deborah Siegel

Deborah Siegel, Ph.D., is the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild. Siegel is a writer and consultant who specializes in gender, politics, and the unfinished business of feminism. Siegel comments frequently about myths and realities regarding women, sex, and power from bedroom to boardroom; the history of the women's movement; and feminism today.

Siegel has written about women, sex, feminism, contemporary families, and popular culture for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, Psychology Today, The Progressive, CNN.com and The Mothers Movement Online.

She has been featured on The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and New York 1 and interviewed on a variety of national radio programs, including Good Morning America Radio, The Wendy Williams Experience, The Judith Warner Show, and The Joey Reynolds Show. Siegel lectures frequently at colleges and universities, bookstores, national conferences, and organizations nationwide. She is a Fellow at the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, a member of the Board of the Council on Contemporary Families, and editor of the anthology Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo. She is Founding Partner of She Writes, the largest community of women writers online and Regional Leader at The OpEd Project, a social venture designed to expand and diversify the range of voices we hear from in public debate, beginning with women.