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       Susan Crites Price and Tom Price are the authors of The Working Parents Help Book: Practical Advice for Dealing with the Day-to-Day Challenges of Kids and Careers (Peterson’s 1994, rev. ed. 1996). The book won a Parent’s Choice Award and was a selection of the Scholastic Book Club.

       The Prices wrote the weekly “Working Parents Lifeline” column, which was published in more than 60 newspapers, and the weekly “Working Solutions” column, which appeared first on the Family Planet Internet service and now is archived on Disney’s Family.com Web site.

       Recognized as experts on balancing the demands of family, career and household management, the Prices have been interviewed on numerous television and radio broadcasts and by many newspapers and magazines. They have appeared on “Today” and “Oprah” and have spoken to employee groups at such major corporations as Marriott, Gannett and Discovery Communications. Their articles on family matters have appeared in such media as Working Mother, Family Life, The Washington Post, Washingtonian and the Family Education Network online service.

       Susan also is author of The Giving Family: Raising Our Children to Help Others (Council on Foundations, 2001, rev. ed. 2003) and is co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Child Safety (Macmillan, 2000). She has spoken about children, families and philanthropy to numerous philanthropic organizations around the world. In 2003, she joined the staff of the Council on Foundations, and in 2007 she became vice president of the National Center for Family Philanthropy.

       Tom was a veteran newspaper reporter, most recently as a correspondent in the Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau, before he became a fulltime freelancer in 1996.

       When not working with Susan, Tom focuses on government, politics, technology, business and education. With former Ambassador and U.S. Rep. Tony Hall, Tom wrote Changing the Face of Hunger: One Man’s Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, and People of Faith are Joining Forces to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed (W Publishing Group, 2006, soft-cover edition 2007). Tom is author of three major studies of politics on the Internet and a fourth about new advocacy group tactics for influencing corporate behavior -- all published by the Foundation for Public Affairs. He writes the Frommer’s guides Washington, D.C., for Dummies (Wiley Publishing, 2003, 2005 and 2007) and, with Susan, the Irreverent Guide to Washington, D.C. (Wiley, 2005 and 2007). He is a contributing writer for Congressional Quarterly’s The CQ Researcher, and he writes a public affairs column for the science magazine Optics and Photonics News. Tom’s work has appeared in such periodicals as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time and Rolling Stone. His clients also have included the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Kettering Foundation and publications at Georgetown and American universities.

       Susan and Tom, who live in Washington, are parents of a daughter who recently graduated from the College of William & Mary.

 

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