Susan Sachs Lipman

Susan Sachs Lipman (Suz) is a parenting and family expert who blogs at the award-winning Slow Family™ Online. Slow Parenting, and her book, Fed Up with Frenzy, were named a 2012 Top 10 Parenting Trend of the Year by TIME Magazine. Suz writes for the New York Times Motherlode blog, the Christian Science Monitor's Modern Parenthood blog, and numerous other outlets. She is the Social Media Director for the Children & Nature Network, an international movement dedicated to connecting children and their families and communities with nature.

Suz has served on many boards and commissions and was named local "Girl Scout Leader of the Year." Suz lives with her husband and daughter in Mill Valley, California, where she enjoys hiking, gardening, reading, soap crafting, and food canning, in addition to sharing her ideas about these activities and more with others who wish to slow down, have fun, and reconnect with themselves and their families.

Her website is www.slowfamilyonline.com.