Deborah Siegel-Acevedo
Nonfiction
Evanston, IL
Deborah Siegel-Acevedo, PhD is an author, TEDx speaker, and the founder of Bold Voice Collaborative. She is the author of two books, Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild (Palgrave Macmillan) and Only Child (Harmony/Random House) as well as essays published in anthologies (Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists; The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality; When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Classic and the Difference It Made; Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism) and in the literary journal TriQuarterly. Her op-eds and essays on gender, feminism, parenting, politics, writing, and social change have appeared in venues including The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN.com, The Forward, Kveller, Slate, The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, Ms., More, and Psychology Today. She has been featured on The Today Show and in the New York Times. An Adjunct Faculty member in the College of Communication at DePaul University and a Visiting Scholar in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University, she teaches courses on personal and public narrative. She previously taught opinion writing as a Senior Facilitator at The OpEd Project. Siegel-Acevedo has collaborated to create several innovative multimedia initiatives in the writing and publishing space. She is co-founder of SheWrites.com, the largest online global community for women who write (35,000+ members), as well as the founding editor of the group blog Girl w/Pen and co-creator of Barnard University’s online journal The Scholar & Feminist Online. Her latest projects include Voice the Pandemic, a workshop designed to capture life experience for the archives, and an ongoing series of essays about gender, childhood, and raising her boy/girl twins. Born in the Chicago area, she lived in NYC for 20 years only to return to Evanston, where she finds herself, once again, a lover of all things Lake Michigan. Visit her at www.deborahsiegelphd.com (author site), www.girlmeetsvoice.com (coaching site), www.boldvoicecollaborative.com (online teaching site).