Laura Sessions Stepp

Laura Sessions Stepp is a journalist who specializes in covering teenagers and the adolescent years for the Style Section of The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in such publications as Parent, Child, Working Mother, Reader's Digest, and Nieman Reports of Harvard University. She has served as a member of the U.S. Surgeon General's Healthy People 2000 Panel on Adolescence in 1998 and 1999 and chairs the board of advisers of the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families at the University of Maryland.