Biography: Elizabeth Debold

Elizabeth Debold, EdD, is senior editor of EnlightenNext magazine, as well as an author, internationally reknowned gender researcher, and cultural commentator. Her bestselling book, Mother Daughter Revolution: From Good Girls to Great Women, was heralded by Gloria Steinem and Carol Gilligan as “the book women have been waiting for.” Debold received her doctorate in human development and psychology from Harvard University, where she was a founding member of the Harvard Project on Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development, directed by Dr. Carol Gilligan. Debold has been sought as an expert on girls, women, and the evolution of gender roles by major media outlets in the U.S. and abroad and has lectured in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. She has made multiple appearances on Oprah, Good Morning America, and NPR, and was featured in a major Lifetime documentary on girls’ development. Currently, she cohosts a regular weekly web broadcast about spiritual and cultural evolution through EnlightenNext. She has also consulted to numerous films/television programs, as well as to foundations, nonprofit educational organizations, corporate law firms, and businesses.  She has taught at the New School for Social Research, Harvard University, and the Graduate Institute, where she was the academic director of the Master of Arts program in Conscious Evolution. Her work has appeared in academic publications, popular media, and international anthologies as wel as in EnlightenNext magazine. She is under contract for a new book, tentatively titled The Evolution of Love: Men, Women, and the Possibility of Transformation to be published by Pantheon.