Our Bloggers

Dominique Browning

Dominique Browning is the co-founder of Moms Clean Air Force and its lead blogger. She is a writer and editor — and the mother of two sons. She blogs at Slow Love Life and writes a column called Personal Nature for the Environmental Defense Fund. She also writes regularly for the New York Times, and contributes to W, Wired, Whole Living, and Good Housekeeping, among other publications. She has spent most of her journalistic career in the magazine world, as an editor at Esquire, Texas Monthly, Newsweek, and House & Garden. She is the author of several books; the most recent is SLOW LOVE: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, & Found Happiness.

Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon blogs from Northeastern Ohio — a hotbed in the fight for clean air — on Writes Like She Talks. She has a joint degree in law and social work from Case Western Reserve University, and she has had a varied and fascinating career, as a multimedia journalist, a community activist, and a deeply involved room mother at her children’s schools. Her piece about a recent journey with her family is a wry and touching look at being a more capable mom. “She is very powerful, so be nice to her,” says former Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut.

Marcia G. Yerman

Writer/Activist/Artist Marcia G. Yerman contributes to the Women News Network and the Huffington Post, among others, but you can also find her profiles, interviews, essays and articles archived at mgyerman.com. Marcia’s focus has been on women and the arts, and tensions around who defines a woman’s identity in a male-driven popular culture. Her “Phillip Portfolio: My Years in Captivity” is a subversive, poignant, and witty look at motherhood. And as we all know, it isn’t clear who is the captive: mother or child?!

Ana Lilian Flores and Roxana A. Soto

Best friends since college, Ana Lilian Flores and Roxana A. Soto, co-founded SpanglishBaby, the online community for parents raising bilingual and bicultural kids in Feb. 2009, when they realized there was a lack of information regarding this issue.

Ana Lilian Flores

Ana was born in Houston to parents from El Salvador, and grew up in El Salvador before returning to the US for college. With over 15 years of experience as a television producer and content creator, with a specialty in the U.S. Hispanic industry, she has reinvented herself as a blogger and social media strategist. In December of 2010, Ana appeared on the cover of Hispanic Business Magazine as “The New Face of Social Media.” She now works — and is raising a family — in Los Angeles, where she recently launched another new venture, Latina Bloggers Connect.

Roxana A. Soto

Roxana, an Emmy-award winning bilingual journalist, was born in Peru and moved to the U.S. as a teenager. After many years as a newspaper reporter and television producer, she called it quits and left South Florida for the Rockies, where she’s raising two bilingual and bicultural children. Today, she divides her professional time between her blogs — as SpanglishBaby’s editorial director and her more personal venture, Bicultural Me — and her freelance writing and translating gigs.

Gina Carroll

Gina Carroll‘s blog appears at MomHouston, where she is TorturedbyTeenagers — a familiar feeling to many of us. Her smart, deft post on Five Conversations to Have With Your Teenager Before Spring Break says it all: she dispenses wisdom with compassion. In her career as a writer, she has lived all over the United States, but is now settled in Houston, Texas, with her husband and five children. Her blog is carried by the Houston Chronicle.

Karen

Karen, who prefers not to use her full name so that she maintains a bit of camouflage, is a military spouse “with an opinion and an attitude.” She blogs at the fascinating Milspouse Mutterings. I learned there, for instance, about an online movement to persuade TIME magazine to choose The Military Family as their Person of the Year. Karen’s son is an Iraq War Veteran, and so is his wife. Her husband was Army back in the Cold War, then Reserve, then National Guard. After 9/11, he went into Active Guard Reserve and then back into the Active Army. Karen and her family live in North Virginia. Karen speaks for many writers when she says “I write, because I just have to.”

Derek Markham

Derek Markham curates Natural Papa. He is a self described “nature boy, a tree-hugging dirt worshipper.” Natural Papa is a site for conversation about, well, everything that has to do with being a father — and a friend. He and his guests write with passion and insight about manliness, relationships, alternative lifestyles, natural foods, home schooling, social activism, and everything else that might crease the worried brow of a father trying to figure out how to give it his best. Derek and his family live and work in Silver City, New Mexico.

Katy Farber

Katy Farber is a teacher and a writer in Vermont who blogs at Non-Toxic Kids. She covers the environment, parenting, green living and education. She is also the mother of “two spirited little girls.” Last year, as she wrote recently, she participated in Vermont’s first “body burden study” and learned that she had a high rate of Deca contamination — a toxic flame retardant chemical used in electronics, fabrics, and mattresses. Naturally, her thoughts immediately went to how she could protect her children from exposure, and she shares her findings in her post. Farber’s first book was Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus; her second book is Change the World with Service Learning: How to Organize, Lead and Assess Service Learning Projects. Her testimony in front of the Vermont legislature helped to pass a bill regulating lead in consumer products.

Abbie Walston

Abbie Walston was raised on her family’s 365-year-old farm in Connecticut, which has shaped her lifestyle, parenting, philosophy of education and environmental activism. Abbie, her husband, Ed, and their toddler son Joshua strive to live simply and sustainably by raising and growing much of their own food, cooking from scratch and reducing their energy consumption. In addition to advocating for local agriculture and natural parenting, Abbie is a high school science teacher, specializing in environmental science, botany and physics. She blogs at Farmer’s Daughter and The Green Phone Booth.

Ronnie Citron-Fink

Ronnie Citron-Fink is a writer, editor and educator. She has written hundreds of articles about green living and the environment for websites, books and magazines. Ronnie is the managing editor of Moms Clean Air Force. She currently blogs at Econesting, Care2, and Planet Green. Her posts can also be found on Inhabitat, Yahoo!Green, Huffington Post, Treehugger, Mother Nature News, Tonic, Practically Green and other sites. Ronnie was named one of the Top Ten Living Green Experts by Yahoo. She has been a contributor to Family Fun magazine and is included in many of their books. Ronnie was a teacher for many years and is on the Board of Trustees of The Randolph School.

Elisa Batista

Elisa Batista is a co-founder and co-publisher of the parenting website MotherTalkers.com. She also blogs and is an advocate for the family organization MomsRising.org, and as if she were not busy enough, she helped start an independent Spanish-immersion school in Oakland, California, called Escuela Bilingüe Internacional. Batista is a journalist by training and profession who has been published in the Huffington Post, Wired News in San Francisco, the Boston Herald, and several Boston-area weeklies. A native of Miami who is of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent, she now lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and their two children.

Molly Rauch

Molly Rauch is a mom who lives and works in Washington, DC. She is a blogger and Public Health Policy and Outreach Manager for Moms Clean Air Force, a national organization fighting for clean air to protect our children’s health. She has authored reports on coal and clean air for Physicians for Social Responsibility, and has written about environmental health issues for The Green Guide. A native New Yorker, she holds a masters degree in public health, with a focus on epidemiology.

Lamar and Ronnie Tyler

Lamar and Ronnie Tyler are the husband and wife team behind the award-winning website BlackandMarriedWithKids.com. They recently produced and directed two Amazon.com bestselling documentaries centered on promoting marriage in the African American community. The films have inspired a Facebook fan page with over 80 thousand fans in less than two years. The Tyler’s were recently selected by Essence as a Power Couple on The Move on a short list of 23 couples that included names like the Obamas, Will and Jada Smith and Jay-Z and Beyonce. Most importantly the Tyler’s are the proud parents of four children in the Atlanta area.

Liza Donnelly

Liza Donnelly creates original cartoons for Moms Clean Air Force. Liza is a public speaker and has spoken at TED , the United Nations, and The New Yorker Festival, among many other places. Liza has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, NBC and BetterTV, and has been profiled on radio and in numerous magazines, newspapers and online. She is a staff cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine. When she first began selling to The New Yorker in 1979, she was the youngest and one of only three cartoonists who were women. Liza’s cartoons and commentary can be seen on various websites: CNN, HuffingtonPost, Salon, Daily Beast, WomensEnews, Narrative Magazine. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, and her cartoons have been exhibited around the world. Her most recent book is When Do They Serve The Wine? The Folly, Flexibility and Fun of Being a Woman (2010, Chronicle Books). Liza is at work on a new book, titled Women On Men. Find more about Liza at lizadonnelly.com

Tracy Sabetta

Tracy Sabetta is the co-founder of Initiative Consulting, a campaign consulting and public affairs firm in Columbus, Ohio. Tracy conducts lobbying and media relations work for non-profit organizations that focus primarily on environmental and health care issues. Prior to starting IC, Tracy was the Vice President of Government Relations for the American Cancer Society, Ohio Division, where she served as co-chair and spokesperson for a 2006 ballot initiative that resulted in smoke-free public places and workplaces in Ohio. Sabetta has worked in both the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives as a legislative aide and budget analyst. She has also served as campaign manager and staff on a number of US Senate, gubernatorial, legislative, and local political campaigns. She is married and the mother of a 12 year old daughter.

Kerry Trueman

Kerry Trueman is a climate change activist/writer/speaker who advocates low-impact living, healthy eating, sustainable agriculture and related topics in a lively, non-wonky way. Dubbed “the Frank Rich of the good food movement” by Civil Eats editor Paula Crossfield, she has been a regular contributor to the Huffington Post since 2007. She also writes for AlterNet, Grist, and Civil Eats. Trueman wrote the chapter on how to eat ecologically for Rodale’s Whole Green Catalog. She is co-founder of Eating Liberally and a national leader of Living Liberally, the powerhouse netroots social network which includes Drinking Liberally, Laughing Liberally, Screening Liberally, et al. Trueman has also been a consultant to the Meatless Monday Campaign and serves on Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s food policy steering committee. She appears in the documentary No Impact Man and has been a guest on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate show.

Lori Popkewitz Alper

Lori Popkewitz Alper is a green living enthusiast and lifestyle writer, consultant, mother, borderline vegan and recovering attorney, who runs the website Groovy Green Livin. Lori is devoted to sharing and gathering information needed for living a green life. Through each and every small, eco-conscious change we make the world will become a healthier, safer place for us all. In her free time Lori can be found practicing yoga, pitching a baseball, running, cycling, skiing, cooking, or reading.

Mark Burns

Mark Burns is a playwright and screenwriter whose credits include the screenplays for Married to the Mob and She-Devil. His most recent play, The Club, is a dark comedy about a violent clash of American values at a 13-hole golf course in the rural Northeast. He is currently writing a screenplay about the evolution of the ecosystem on a Texas bison ranch and its fight for survival against hydrofrackers. The father of three sons, he has lived in the Hudson Valley of New York for 20 years.

Alexandra Zissu

Alexandra Zissu is an eco lifestyle expert, writer, speaker, and consultant. She’s the author of The Conscious Kitchen, Planet Home, The Complete Organic Pregnancy, and The Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat. She has worked for New York Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Lifetime and Details magazines, The New York Observer and Women’s Wear Daily, and her stories have appeared in dozens of publications.

She speaks often about all things eco-friendly at private firms, mothers’ groups, schools, non-profits, and industry expos, and consults about green living for individuals and organizations. Though she should probably be on a biodynamic farm in Vermont, or growing dill in Finland, she actually lives in New York City, across the street from where she grew up, with her (organic) family.

Laura Burns

Laura Burns is a former biologist who blogs at Pug in the Kitchen. She her her husband, Matt strive to live a low-impact life with their 2 children Liam (2) and Sylvia (4 months). Together they cook from scratch, cloth diaper, homebirth, and hang their laundry in the fresh air.

Judith A. Ross

Judith A. Ross is a contributing writer and columnist for Talking Writing, an online literary magazine. She has written numerous articles, profiles, and reports for academic, corporate, and nonprofit organizations, including Harvard Business Review and several publications published by Harvard Business School. Judith also blogs at Shifting Gears.