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From the cofounder of MomsRising.org and a speaker at the Women's March on Washington, KEEP MARCHING is an action-oriented, hands-on guide that will give all women the tools, incentive, and information they need to create political change in their communities--and in the country as a whole. A GROUNDBREAKING, DEFINITIVE WORK ON HOW TO BUILD WOMEN'S POWERWomen are rising with strength, resilience, and courage. For the first time in history, women are 50 percent of our workforce. Keep Marching is a practical guide for building women's power and leadership that offers a personal, persuasive, and highly researched examination of the institutional, economic, and political barriers that hold women back. Author Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner-the executive director of MomsRising, a speaker at the 2017 Women's March in Washington, D.



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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is Executive Director and Co-Founder of MomsRising.org. Started in May 2006, MomsRising is an on-the-ground and online organization that has over 1 million members, and more than a hundred aligned national organizations, working together to increase family economic security and to help ensure all children can thrive. In addition to being a grassroots force, in 2010, Forbes.com named MomsRising's web site one of the "Top 100 Websites For Women."

The author of the award-winning book The F-Word: Feminism In Jeopardy, Rowe-Finkbeiner also co-authored the book, The Motherhood Manifesto, which won the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. Rowe-Finkbeiner's writing also appears in several other books, including the anthologies, The Essential Hip Mama: Writing from the Cutting Edge of Motherhood; The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change; Courageous Parents, Confident Kids: Letting Go So You Both Can Grow; and, Current Controversies: The Wage Gap, as well as additional academic anthologies.

A regular contributor to the Huffington Post, Rowe-Finkbeiner writes frequently about public policy, motherhood, economic security, equality, health, and new feminism. A former freelance journalist who won an award for excellence in journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2006, many of her magazine articles are currently being used in women's studies classes across the nation.

Rowe-Finkbeiner has been deeply involved in cutting edge politics and policy analysis for nearly two decades. Prior to her tenure at MomsRising, she worked as a consultant in the field of political strategy and policy analysis, as well as for several non-profit organizations.

She currently serves on the board of the Economic Opportunity Institute, and as a Parenting Magazine Mom Congress Advisory Board Member. She lives in Washington State with her husband and two children.



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