About Debbie

Teen and tween advocate, speaker, and author Deborah Reber created Smart Girls Know in 2007 to present relevant news, information, insight, and advice to young women and girls. Her books include CHILL: Stress-Reducing Techniques for a More Balanced, Peaceful You (Simon Pulse), In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers (Simon Pulse), the three-book teen self-help series Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul’s The Real Deal (HCI/Scholastic), It’s My Life’s Friendship Handbook (PBS), and Run for Your Life: A Book for Beginning Women Runners (Perigee), as well as more than a dozen books based on the hit TV show Blue’s Clues. Deborah is currently creating and editing a new series of teen-authored memoirs for HCI Books (forthcoming in Fall 2009), and is penning her first YA novel.

Deborah speaks at national conferences for organizations such as Girl Scouts, Mind on the Media, and Girls for a Change and leads interactive workshops for young women on living their most authentic, empowered lives. She frequently consults and collaborates with children’s educational media providers to create, shape, and edit content.

Prior to becoming a fulltime author, Deborah worked in children’s television with Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, and as a video producer for UNICEF, Globalvision, and CARE. She has an M.A. in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research and a B.A. in Communications from Penn State University. She lives in Seattle.

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To find out more about Debbie’s books, speaking programs, and interactive workshops for middle school, high school, and college students, visit her website at deborahreber.com.

To contact Debbie directly regarding interview requests, consulting, workshops, or general inquiries, email her at deborah@deborahreber.com, or send snail mail to:

Deborah Reber
4509 Interlake Avenue N
P.O. Box 281
Seattle, WA 98103