Amy Spangler

Amy Spangler MN, RN, IBCLC, is a wife, mother, nurse, lactation consultant, educator, and author. She earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from The Ohio State University and her master's degree in maternal and child health from the University of Florida. Amy is a registered nurse, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, a former president of the International Lactation Consultant Association, and a former chair of the United States Breastfeeding Committee. She is a member of the adjunct faculty at Emory University School of Nursing and the author of numerous publications including BREASTFEEDING, A Parent's Guide, BREASTFEEDING, Keep It Simple, BREASTFEEDING, Your Guide to a Healthy, Happy Baby, Evidence-based Guidelines for the Establishment of Exclusive Breastfeeding During the First Fourteen Days, and Clinical Guidelines for the Establishment of Exclusive Breastfeeding. Amy currently serves as President of baby gooroo. She lectures extensively on a wide variety of maternal and child health topics. Amy lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband Dennis. They have two sons, Matthew and Adam.

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Carol Rivera

Carol Adams Rivera, M.A., received a bachelor’s degree in genetics, with a French minor, from the University of California at Berkeley. She also earned a master’s degree in English from Georgetown University, where she had a special interest in biology and literature. From 1989 to 2002, Carol worked at the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Georgetown University, where she began as a project associate and advanced to director of publications. As director of publications, Carol managed the editing, design, and printing of more than 80 publications and products per year, including the Bright Futures national health care guidelines on pediatric health supervision, nutrition, physical activity, mental health, and oral health. In 2002, Carol founded Health Communication Connection, a business providing health-related editing, writing, and graphic design services. Carol has worked on the editing and layout of breastfeeding publications for Amy’s Babies since 2003. Her other projects have included co-writing a booklet on prenatal care for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Carol and her husband, Ben, live in the Washington, DC, area with their two children, Benjamin and Rachel.

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Heidi Green

Heidi Hauser Green, MS, MLIS, is passionate about issues that affect maternal-child health. She has spent more than a decade working in research and communications for organizations involved in projects that enhance the health of mothers and families. In addition to a bachelor’s degree from Niagara University, Heidi has earned master’s degrees from Illinois State University and the University of Pittsburgh. A member of the Allegheny County Breastfeeding Promotion Steering Committee, she keeps busy reviewing books for Children’s Literature and completing other writing/editing projects. Heidi lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with her husband Michael and their three children.

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Mary Jessica Hammes

Mary Jessica Hammes is a writer, trapeze artist, comic book enthusiast, vegan banana bread baker, knitter, and obsessive reader. She is also mother to young Thomas, a toddler whose present height suggests a future in either basketball, apple-picking, or some other pursuit suitable for the extremely tall. His hair is also way too long, but neither Mary Jessica nor her husband, Robert Newsome, can bear to have it cut, because they are both too sentimental for their own good. Mary Jessica likes contemplating the finer things in life: namely, extended breastfeeding, unmedicated labor (yowza!), cloth diapering, homemade toddler food, various crafty and money-saving activities, and pretty much anything to do with Hobbits, pirates, 18th century sassy British ladies looking for husbands, zombies, Doctor Who, and teenaged vampires in young adult novels. You can keep track of her writing work at maryjessicahammes.com, or read her blog at handywithaneedle.blogspot.com.

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Allison Micarelli-Sokoloff

Allison Micarelli-Sokoloff, Editor in Chief of babygooroo.com, is a new mom equally excited and scared about all that parenting has to offer. She has the same questions and fears that all our babygooroo.com moms have. Why isn't he latching? Will he ever learn to like spinach? Why isn't he crawling? Yet she delights in the idea that we can all figure it out together through sharing information and advice on all things parenthood (specifically regarding the health and well-being of our babies and ourselves). Allison spent over 10 years as a Managing Editor for many publications including Parents.com before joining the team at babygooroo.com. She wants all moms and dads to know that baby gooroo strives to provide parents with timely information affecting the health of their children. By alleviating anxiety and quelling fears, babygooroo.com makes it easier for readers to just be, well, mom and dad.

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Matt Spangler

Mr. Matt Spangler is a digital communications entrepreneur with a track record as an agency leader and brand consultant. He was a partner at thehappycorp global, and served as Chief Strategy Officer, serving clients such as Apple, Mercedes AMG, Anheuser Busch and HSBC. In April 2009 he started an independent communications consultancy and since then has provided brand consulting services to Vitaminwater, Absolut Vodka, and Naked Communications among others. He writes for The Huffington Post and provides an ongoing flow of compelling media tidbits at his personal site mrmattspangler.com.

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Adam Spangler

Atlanta born, New York based writer Adam Spangler puts his academic degrees in geology and journalism to good use, reporting on environmental topics for magazines such as Vanity Fair, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, OnEarth, Plenty, and the Earth Island Journal. He fills in the gaps of the lackluster media coverage of American soccer at his blog, thisisamericansoccer.com. When not writing, Adam can be found at a jazz club, in the mountains, or spending too much money on clothing and gear.

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