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Lori Sokol, PhD
| Lori Sokol, PhD, is President of the She Is Me Coaching Academy and the executive director and editor-in-chief of Women’s eNews, an award-winning, nonprofit news organization that reports on the most crucial issues impacting women and girls around the world. As an entrepreneur, scholar, author, and psychotherapist/coach, Dr. Sokol’s career spans over thirty years of writing, researching, teaching and coaching on such pertinent social issues as gender equality, the needs of working parents, environmental sustainability, and strides made by female professionals determined to smash the proverbial 'glass ceiling.' Dr. Sokol’s research has specifically focused on the media’s influence in crafting gender roles, further seeking to expose how stereotypes are created and maintained. She has published academic articles on the psychology of media, presented at numerous women's empowerment conferences in both the USA and Asia, and served as an adjunct professor in the Psychology Departments of colleges and universities. Dr. Sokol's articles have been published in Newsweek, The Baltimore Sun, The Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, and Slate, and she has been profiled in a variety of major publications, most recently in The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. She has also been featured on MSNBC, CNBC, WPIX, and Spectrum's NY1. Her latest book, She Is Me: How Women will save the World (2021, Simon & Schuster distributor) was the recipient of the IBPA Award and a finalist in the International Book Awards. Her first book, Flex Primer for the New Future of Work, was published by Working Mother Media in 2011. She is currently writing her memoir. |
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| PhD (Educational Psychology) Master of Science (Education) Master of Arts (Educational Psychology) Bachelor of Arts (English/Women's Studies) |
| lori@womensenews.org |
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| https://www.sheismebook.com https://womensenews.org |