This Is the Author

"My book is about my five years that I spent in the white house in the Obama administration and the two months I spent in the Trump administration as a stenographer. I actually got the job on Craigslist so I was a bit of a fish out of water. The story is really about a young woman, me, finding her way along the corridors of power and making a lot of bad decisions and poor life choices, and having a lot of embarrassing moments, but also figuring out what’s important and what’s not—all while having a front row seat to history."

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"ASTROBALL is really the result of several twists of fate. In 2014, in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, I wrote a cover story about what was then the worst team in baseball, one of the worst teams in baseball history, and we predicted on the cover that they would win the 2017 World Series. And then they actually did. I just had to write a book about the new techniques they used to get from the bottom to the top."

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"Hope Nation is a collection of stories and essays about hope written by some of my personal favorite YA writers writing for readers today."

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"I wrote this book with Rodney Anderson at Stanford because I suffered from chronic pelvic pain for over 20 years and gratefully I found a way to stop it. The recovery from pelvic pain was one of the major miracles of my life. We wrote this book to bring this amazing method to the many who suffer from chronic pelvic pain syndrome who have not found an answer to their condition."

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"A lot of the inspiration for this book came from experiences doing fieldwork. I’ve been fortunate in being able to do a lot of different kinds of scientific fieldwork, whether it's digging up fossils, tagging the backs of living whales, or dissecting their carcasses. "

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"I wrote my book because I’ve been thinking about what has gone wrong in our relations between men and women for as long as I’ve been an adult. As I say in the book, my life tracks almost perfectly with the modern second-wave feminist movement, and I think I have a perspective that lifespan gives me about what has gone right and wrong with the movement."

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"I had always wanted to write a memoir one day, and I had always wanted to write a book, and I thought that it'd be a unique opportunity to speak to a number of issues I care deeply about—issues of free speech, issues of race, class, inequality—and ultimately, to speak to the ways in which I hope to make a positive difference in the lives of others."

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"I decided to write this for three reasons. I wanted a vehicle to keep the spotlight bright on the Flint water crisis because I knew that the nation's attention would fade while many of the needs and problems resulting from the crisis would remain. Second, I also wanted a vessel to share the Flint story not only for our terrible lessons, but to also share that there are Flints everywhere, communities raddled with poverty, injustice, and lost democracy. Finally, I wanted a megaphone to tell the story of how science spoke truth to power and how we are using the cutting-edge science of what toxic stress does to the brain, to build resilience and give hope to the kids of Flint, and kids everywhere."

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"REGULATORY HACKING: A PLAYBOOK FOR STARTUPS is really the culmination of this incredibly cool journey I’ve had the privilege to go on over the last five years. Through co-founding 1776 with Donna Harris, I’ve gotten to meet these incredible startup founders all over the world: from Silicon Valley, from Washington D.C., but also Nairobi, Singapore, London, Brussels. And this is really more a story about the incredible things I’ve learned from them."

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"I wrote my book, SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW, because I wanted to show the audience that the diagnosis of dementia doesn’t have to mean the end. When people hear the word “dementia” they often think of the end stages. I wanted to show how each person has a beginning, and a middle, and many adventures and laughter in between."

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