Our Contributors

1. LEXIE BRIGGS

Lexie Briggs is the marketing and communications specialist at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History on the campus of the University of Oregon. She enjoys dancing Lindy hop, reading Shakespeare with her friends, and hanging out with the giant ground sloth skeleton on display in the museum. She lives with a sweet but timorous cat named Emma.

2. BRANDY BROWNE

Brandy Browne is the shelter manager for a family crisis center in the United States, as well as a counseling student and blogger for various nonprofits – her area of passion is helping families develop positive habits and breaking the cycle of generational trauma and poverty. Brandy is currently in the final leg of obtaining her counseling license as a marriage and family therapist. Brandy is a wife to her high school sweetheart of seventeen years, and together they share three children, aged twelve, nine, and seven. In her free time, she enjoys reading, gardening, writing, walking in nature, and biking.

3. RICK EPSTEIN

A Dad’s Eye View contributor, also awardwinning columnist, and journalist. Author of Rookie Dad (Hyperion) and The Right Number of Kids (McKenna Publishing Group). His wife and three daughters run a living laboratory in which he is constantly tested, analyzed, and experimented upon. It’s as if a guinea pig could write.

4. BONNIE HARRIS

Bonnie is Oregon Family Magazine’s resident Movie Review Master Extraordinaire. She enjoys watching movies of all kinds, and has been doing movie reviews for over 9 years and counting. She lives in Eugene with her family, enjoys gardening and cooking.

5. JANEEN LEWIS

Janeen Lewis is a writer, teacher and mom to Andrew and Gracie. She has degrees in journalism and elementary education as well as a Master’s Degree in Education. A nationally published writer, her work has been featured in several parenting magazines and Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies.

6-8. PARENTING NOW

The Parenting Now article was written by: MEREDITH TUFTS, First Three Years Program Manager at Parenting Now; DEBBIE JENSEN , IBCLC credentialed lactation and feeding consultant; and KALLEN KORIN, retired RN IBCLC.

9. MEREDITH THERRIEN

Meredith Therrien is a certified pre- and post-natal specialist and a fitness instructor for OneFirelight, a newly introduced inspirational wellness platform that promotes unity, strength and a sense of balance through a diverse catalog of hundreds of unique streaming fitness classes.

10. RODDY SCHEER

Journalist and photographer specializing in environmental issues, the outdoors and travel. When he is not out in the field taking pictures, Roddy runs EarthTalk, the non-profit Publisher of the syndicated EarthTalk Q&A column and the EarthTalk.org and Emagazine.

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