Sara Bennett

Sara Bennett is a criminal defense appeals attorney and was the first director of the Wrongful Convictions Project of New York City’s Legal Aid Society. She is an expert in the post-conviction representation of battered women and the wrongly convicted, and lectures widely. Sara and her cases have been featured in the New York Times and on 60 Minutes II , Dateline NBC , and the Today show. She successfully challenged and changed homework policies at her children’s schools. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Nancy Kalish is a former senior editor at Child and columnist for Redbook , Working Mother , and Selecciones . She writes often for Parenting , Parents , Real Simple , Reader’s Digest , More, Ladies’ Home Journal , Health , Prevention , and other magazines. While writing this book, Nancy put several of the strategies to work for her own daughter, always with positive results. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.