Kristen Schultz Dollard lives with her daughter and husband in Manhattan. She has been
studying yoga for 15 years and classical ballet for another 15. In
2004, she trained with Yogi Raj Alan Finger. Currently the Digital
Director of SELF.com Magazine, she is launching dontwasteyourrace.com,
a stubhub for endurance and athletic races and she is developing her
next yoga book: CALM MOM: PUTTING THE OM IN MOM. She has launched
Women's Health Magazine, YogaLife Magazine and the websites iyogalife.com,
Prevention.com, and Women's Health.com. Schultz Dollard, a graduate
of NYU in journalism and women's studies, also spent four years at ABC
NEWS/Good Morning America where she launched the live audience
component in Times Square and wrote live promos for Diane Sawyer and
Charlie Gibson.
Laura Vanderkam, New York City-based writer and mother of two, is the author of GRINDHOPPING: BUILD A REWARDING CAREER WITHOUT PAYING YOUR DUES as well as the exciting new book 168 HOURS (promo video for 168 Hours here).
She is a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors, and her work
has appeared in Reader's Digest, Scientific American, Wired, The
American, Portfolio and other publications.
Mary Ann Zoellner and Alicia Ybarbo are both Emmy award-winning producers for NBC’s TODAY, the number-one
rated morning TV show. "Today's Moms: Essentials for Surviving Baby's
First Year" was published in 2009 by Harper Collins. They’ve
appeared on TODAY, MSNBC, FOX News, WNBC and LXTV as well as in
People, Redbook, Cookie, OK! and Parenting Magazine. The book is a
humerous and informative collection of
first-year-of-parenting anecdotes by the personalities on the Today
Show. They're currently working on their next book together and live
in New York with their families.
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