Anne Driscoll

Author Anne Driscoll is an award-winning journalist who received the 2016 Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice; is a two-time US Fulbright Scholar, in 2018-2019 with the National University of Ireland, Galway, and in 2013-2014 with the Irish Innocence Project at Griffith College Dublin; and was the Senior Reporter beginning in 2006 at the Justice Brandeis Law Project of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She has previously contributed regularly to the "Boston Globe", "New York Times" and "People" magazine, is a licensed certified social worker in Massachusetts and is the author of a three-volume memoir series about her life in Ireland, "Irish You Were Here" as well as a three-volume series of self help books for girls,"Girl to Girl". She has spent the last seven years living in Ireland. Her name Anne means grace or prayer and Driscoll means interpreter, intermediary or news bearer.

In her research for the Girl to Girl series of guidebooks, she has been in contact with hundreds of girls and boys around the globe. She and her work have been the subject of stories or reviews in Publishers Weekly, National Education Association, The Times of London and The Times Educational Supplement Her books are recommended as a resource for the Raising Confident and Competent Girls curriculum developed for middle school girls by the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.

Driscoll is a frequent public speaker and has given talks to students, parents and teachers in England, Ireland, Northern Ireland and the US. She has also been interviewed about her work on television and radio, both in the US and abroad.

Please visit www.girltogirlbooks.com or www.annedriscoll-gracecommunications.com