Lenore Skenazy

After Lenore Skenazy let her 9-year-old ride the subway alone, she wrote the book, “Free-Range Kids,” which grew into the Free-Range Kids movement. Now she is president of Let Grow, the national nonprofit she co-founded with three others, including Jonathan “Anxious Generation” Haidt. Their mission? Making it easy, normal, and legal to give kids back some old-fashioned independence.
Lenore says our kids are smarter, safer, and stronger than our culture gives them credit for. She has lectured everywhere from Microsoft to DreamWorks to Harvard Medical School – and the Bulgarian Happiness Festival! She lives in New York City with her husband and beloved computer. Her kids have flown the coop. (Whew!) And, for the record, she used to write for Mad. Yep, Mad Magazine!