Gina Ritter
NFO Publisher
Gina Ritter owns and publishes
Natural Family Online. She's a native New Yorker
transplanted to Northern California (and loving it!).
Gina lives with her husband,
pets and three young boys. She is a writer, artist and
entrepreneur.
Gina's goal for Natural
Family Online is to improve the lives of diverse groups
of parents and families on their terms. Gina's vision
melds mainstream with granola parenting for the best
mix
of education and support for midstream parenting™. Midstream parents want
tools for bringing a little more natural living to their
families without the hassle of identifying themselves
with one strict brand of parenting.
E-mail
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Lisa Poisso
NFO Editor-in-Chief
Lisa Poisso has performed in ballet and musical
theatre, edited magazines, slogged through the world
of corporate
communications and run a home-based writing and editing
business while raising a family. A passionate advocate
for attachment parenting and natural family living, she
is the founder and publisher of APConnect!,
Dallas/Fort Worth’s online resource for AP and
natural parenting. She writes for publications and
edits for authors
specializing in the natural family, attachment parenting,
and vegetarian fields.
APConnect!
is a non-profit site published by a volunteer staff
on donated web hosting. Our goal is to provide a place
where
like-minded parents can connect with local resources
and with each other.
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Katharina Bishop
Channel Editor
Natural Beauty
Katharina
Bishop is a freelance writer. Her academic background
is eclectic and encompasses studies in philosophy, psychology
and medicine. She is currently completing a Degree in
Modern Language Studies. Katharina is the owner of Wondrous
Gems, a business specializing in designer jewellery,
crystals, and related products.
A
free spirit, she has traveled to over thirty countries
and lived in five, on three continents. She now lives
in South-West England together with her husband Charles
and son, Kiran.
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Tara
Bzdok
Entertaining & Holidays
Editor
Tara Bzdok is a freelance writer specializing in natural living and holistic
health topics. Her B.A. in English Literature and love for reading and writing
have lead her into the antique book business. She hopes to one day turn her interest
in nutrition into a master's degree so she can help people realize their full
potential through better health. A single mother, Tara writes and sells books
from her home in upstate New York.
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Sarojni
Mehta-Lissak
Natural Home Editor
Natural Home Editor Sarojni
Mehta-Lissak is a freelance writer from Long Beach,
California, where she continues to move her family
along the natural living continuum. Her background
includes teaching, practicing skin care, traveling,
cooking and
pursuing "green" trends in her home. She has a B.A. in liberal studies
with a concentration in human development, and she is also a licensed esthetician.
She is married with one daughter, whom she and her husband adopted from India
in 1995. Visit her at sarojnimehta-lissak.com.
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Susan
Palmquist
Food Editor
Susan
Palmquist is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Psychology
Today and Budget Savvy Magazine. She contributes
to ten publications and is a contributing
editor at Garden and Hearth. She holds a certificate of educational
acheivement
in vegetarian nutrition and has been a vegetarian since 1978.
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C.
Delia Scarpitti
Products & Books Editor
C. Delia Scarpitti is a freelance
writer, lifelong student and grateful educator.
Her writing can be found in Mothering Magazine, SageWoman,
and various other publications. She holds degrees
in English education and women's studies and is
currently completing her graduate work in liberal
studies with a concentration in feminist literature
and criticism. She lives in the mid-Atlantic region
with her husband and their three young children
and is currently at work on her first novel.
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Jacque
Shannon-McNulty
Babies & Children
Editor
Jacque
is a freelance writer, childbirth educator and entrepreneur.
She is president of the nonprofit Chicago
Community Midwives and has worked crafting legislative
strategy, lobbying and testifying before the Illinois legislature.
Jacque holds a degree in social science and child development
and has worked professionally counseling women and children,
working and volunteering for social service agencies in
the United States and France. She is co-owner of the Prairie
Croissant Café, an organic, fair-trade coffee
shop offering simple, natural, gourmet fare in French café tradition.
She lives near Chicago with her husband, three homeschooling
daughters, two cats and a puppy.
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Special Contributors:
Denise
Altman
A private practice lactation
consultant and nurse
educator.
Lara
Ashmore
Founder and director of Veggie
KIDS, works with the Robert
Muller Center for Living Ethics and conductor of parent/teacher
workshops.
Nava
Atlas
Author and illustrator of many
books on vegetarian cooking.
Alicia
Bayer Publishes A
Magical Childhood.
Mark
Brandenberg
20 year author,
speaker and certified relationship coach.
Andrea
Candee
Master
herbalist, author, and lecturer.
Christine
Climer
Registered
nurse, trained in early childhood
education, and executive
director and child care nurse
for an early
childhood health promotion organization.
Susie
Cortright
Author
of 2 books, publisher of Momscape.com.
Waverly
Fitzgerald
Freelance
writer and teacher; owner of School
of the Seasons.
Gina
Gerboth
Freelance editor, indexer and writer,
as well as a breastfeeding peer counselor and birth enthusiast.
www.puebloindexing.com
and plentitude.puebloindexing.com.
Susy
Goins
Graduated from American College of Health Sciences.
Caron
Goode Ed.D.
Author,
counselor and director of Inspired
Parenting and Inspired Living International.
Jennifer
Hahn
Doctor and editor of The
Thinking Parent.
Jan
Hunt
Author and leading expert on Attachment
Parenting.
Patricia
Newton
owner of Proud Pregnancies and
founder of Operation
Special Delivery
Linda
Folden Palmer
Consults
and lectures on natural infant health,
optimal child nutrition and AP.
Elizabeth
Pantley
Parenting
educator and author of numerous parenting
books.
Karen
Prior
Runs a Registered Yoga School; knows therapeutic uses
of yoga, nutrition and prenatal
fitness.
Kelley
Shirazi
Studying for master’s of science degree in holistic
nutrition and creator of Oceana Botanical Herbal Products.
Susun
Weed
30 year
herbalist & feminist. www.susunweed.com and www.ashtreepublishing.com.
