Ruth E. Nemzoff

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Dr. Ruth Nemzoff, author of Don't Roll Your Eyes: Making In-Laws Into Family (Palgrave/Macmillan, September 2012), the former assistant minority leader of the New Hampshire State Legislature, the first female Deputy Commissioner of Health and Welfare in New Hampshire, and the first female Bank of New Hampshire Board Member is currently a resident scholar at Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center where she wrote Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), which won the 2013 About.com Reader's Choice award for best book for parents of college-aged children and empty nesters. Dr. Nemzoff has led over 250 discussions on this topic in the United States, Canada, India, China, and England.

For over ten years, she was an adjunct associate professor at Bentley College. She was also a pioneer in developing programs for persons with disabilities and started the equal opportunity office in the New Hampshire State Department of Education. In addition, she was a consultant to schools on gender equity.

She was formerly a visiting scholar at the Wellesley Center for Research of Women, where she wrote an historical analysis of the "Changing Perceptions of Mother of Children with Disabilities." She has also published articles about environmental advertising and women in business and politics. Ruth Nemzoff has served in the United Way Board, the New Hampshire Governor's Commission on the status of Women, the New Hampshire Governor's Commission for the Handicapped and the Developmental Services Planning Board. She was a member the New Hampshire Business Development Board and the Board of Boston's Jewish Family and Children's Services. She founded a nursery school, a counseling service, and the National Women's Legislative Lobby. She served on the board of the Pro-Choice Resource Center and of Newbury College. She is currently the chair of the advisory committee of the University of Massachusetts center for Women and Politics, and a board member of and Lasell Village, Retirement Community and serves on The Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women. In 1998, she ran for Governor's Council and lost by less than 1% of the vote.

Dr. Nemzoff holds a Doctorate in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University, a Master's degree in Counseling from Columbia University, and a Bachelor's degree in American Studies from Barnard College. Her papers are archived at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. She and her husband, Harris Berman, have four adult children, four in-law children and eight grandchildren.