Meet the Authors

HEATHER GRAY

Heather Gray graduated with a BA in Psychology from Brown University and Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.   Heather has more than 10 years of research experience in adolescent issues including: teenage pregnancy and its prevention, dating violence, body satisfaction, and eating disorders.

Creating Real Girl Real World: A Guide to Finding Your True Self was from a deep desire to inspire girls to empower themselves rather than listening to the mixed-up messages they receive from so many sources.

Heather is also an innovative coach and the creator of Soul-filled Life (soulfilledlife.com). She loves helping others manifest success and abundance by living in their gifts.

SAMANTHA PHILLIPS

Samantha Phillips graduated with a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University and received a Masters in Education from Lesley College. She is currently a freelance writer, and a contributing writer for Fit Pregnancy magazine. She is a lecturer at the University of Miami, where she teaches freshman writing classes.

Samantha has used Real Girl Real World many times to teach a course on Teenagers in the USA. She is now teaching a course on Relationships in the Digital Age. She lives in Miami with her family. Under duress, she did give her eldest daughter a Barbie when she turned three (aah) and since then they have multiplied like rabbits…her family now has a tangled collection of disheveled Barbies that live mostly in a drawer.

You can read more at the Real Girl Real World blog.