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Title: Meredith Maran at SNAP 2008 part 1 View count: 197 Rating: 5.0 (1 ratings) Description: Meredith Maran published her first poem in Highlights For Kids at age 6, her first national magazine article at age 15, and her first book at age 18. In the years that followed she built a house and raised goats outside Taos, lived with the cast of "Hair" in London, and installed brakes and union consciousness on the Ford assembly line in San Jose. Meredith got her first "real job" with Banana Republic in 1987, then created award-winning socially responsible marketing campaigns for companies including Ben & Jerry's, Working Assets, Stoneyfield Farms, Smith & Hawken, and Odwalla. Meredith is a contributor to bazillions of magazines including Playboy, Salon.com, Vibe, Real Simple, Family Circle, and More. She has written and co-authored eight books, several of them best-sellers, all of them focused on her greatest passion: the difference between how things are in America and how they should be—and what we can do about it. Since publishing two books on the subject of teenagers, Meredith has been speaking to policy makers, educators, parents, treatment providers, and community activists who advocate for kids. Venues to date include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Charles Schwab Foundation, Stanford Business School, UC Berkeley Law School, Educators for Social Responsibility, and the Education Writers of America. From 20042006 she was Writer in Residence at UCLA. In 2006 she was Writer in Residence at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos. She has cherished her residencies at Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ragdale Foundation, and Mesa Refuge. Meredith lives in Oakland and has two grown (and growing) sons, photographer Peter Graham and painter Jesse Graham. She is happily married to the horticultural genius Katrine Thomas, and looks forward to making it legal very soon. Tags: snap, gathering, meredith, maran, Author: InHouseCS |
