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Joe Kelly is an author, speaker, trainer and primary media source on fathering, appearing on the Today Show, Talk of the Nation, and in Time, People, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other outlets. Joe is author of seven books, including the best-seller "Dads & Daughters®: How to Inspire, Understand and Support Your Daughter" which Dr. Mary Pipher calls “an essential aid for the fathers of adolescent girls.” Joe blogs at www.thedadman.com and www.dadsanddaughters.blogspot.com, writes for greatdad.com and fathers.com, has written for Parents and Mothering, co-founded the NGO Dads & Daughters® and helped his wife Nancy Gruver create the groundbreaking girl-edited, award-winning New Moon® Girls magazine (www.newmoon.com). Kelly won Father of the Year Awards from iParenting.com and the Women’s Sports Foundation, and won the USA’s Eating Disorders Coalition Activist of the Year award. He is President of the Minnesota Fathers & Families Network and serves on the steering committee of the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood. Kelly has advised the American Psychological Association Task Force on Sexualization of Girls, National Domestic Violence Hotline, Save Title IX Task Force, Men's Resource Center for Change, and Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day Foundation. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota and has two grown daughters.