Joe Kelly (author)

In 1999 Joe Kelly co-founded Dads and Daughters (DADs), the first national advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters in the United States, with Michael Kieschnick. DADs owns the newsletter "Daughters: For Parents of Girls".

A journalist by training, Kelly is an award-winningFact|date=March 2008 national speaker and primary media source on fathering, and an author specializing in family issues and has been featured in hundreds of media outlets, including "The Today Show", National Public Radio’s "Talk of the Nation", "Time", "People", "New York Times", "USA Today", and "Wall Street Journal". He also co-authors, ghostwrites and provides consulting services for authors.

Before working on girls’ and fathering issues, Kelly was a reporter, producer, and regional news director for Minnesota Public Radio. In his 20s, he worked as an actor with the Nebraska Theater Caravan at the Omaha Community Playhouse.

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Kelly also wrote the play "This Horse of a Body of Mine" (an adaptation of the short story by Norbert Bly) and co-edited four nonfiction books for girls.

In 1993, Kelly and his wife Nancy Gruver founded "New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams", edited by girls 8 to 14 years old.

Awards and recognition

* "Parenting magazine"’s 1995 Parenting Achievement Award: 1995 with wife Nancy Gruver
* iParenting.com’s Dad of the Year: 2001
* Women’s Sports Foundations Title IX Father of the Year: 2004
* Eating Disorders Coalition’s Activist of the Year award: 2004

* New Moon" is the only child-edited publication to win the Parent’s Choice Foundation Gold Award multiple times.

Personal

Born in northern New Jersey in 1954, Kelly grew up in Ohio and Southern New Jersey. He attended LeMoyne College and eventually graduated in his 40s from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He and Gruver have twin daughters, born in 1980.

External links

* [http://www.joekelly.info Joe Kelly Official Website]