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BioSusan Linn is Associate Director of the Media Center of the Judge
Baker Children’s Center and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard
Medical School. She has written extensively about the effects of media
and commercial marketing on children. Her book, Consuming Kids: The hostile takeover of childhood
(The New Press) has been praised in publications as diverse as The
Wall Street Journal and Mother Jones hand has been
published on four continents. Her articles have
appeared in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science
Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.
Dr. Linn is a co-founder of the national coalition Campaign for a
Commercial-Free Childhood.
In 2000 she was appointed to the American Psychological
Association’s Task Force on Advertising to Children.
She has been
featured on
Sixty Minutes, Now with Bill Moyers, World
News Tonight, An award winning ventriloquist, Dr. Linn is internationally known
for her innovative work using puppets in child psychotherapy,
pioneering this work at Children’s Hospital in Boston, where she
used puppets to help children cope with their hospital experiences.
Combining her skills as a writer and performer with her role as a
child therapist, Dr. Linn has written and appeared in a number of
video programs designed to help children cope with issues ranging from
mental illness to death and loss. With Family Communications, Inc., the producers of Mister
Rogers’ Neighborhood, Dr. Linn created Different and the
Same: Helping Children Identify and Prevent Prejudice, video based
classroom materials designed for first to third graders.
The series won the 1996 Media Award from the Association of
Multicultural Educators and is being used in forty-seven states around
the country. Susan Linn ©2004 | All Rights
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