Kathryn Russell Selk is a mom of two and writes with a focus on child development and parenting. She is also an appellate public defender and has successfully used research in neurological development and differences in brain development of children to help establish new legal requirements for how children should be treated in criminal justice systems.
A longtime public education advocate, she cowrote multiple briefs in the Supreme Court on the McCleary education funding case. She has also organized donations of over 5,000 books to local schools whose parents don’t have resources to fill in funding holes. She lives, parents, chases elderly tuxedo cats and works in Seattle.