Brigid Schulte

Speaker

BRIGID SCHULTE is the Director of the Better Life Lab and The Good Life Initiative at New America, a nonpartisan think tank, and author of the New York Times bestselling Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play when No One has the Time, which was named a notable book of the year by the Washington Post and NPR. She has been quoted as an expert in numerous national and international publications and speaks all over the world about how to make time for a Better Life by redesigning work cultures to focus on effective work, re-imagining gender roles for a fairer division of labor and opportunity at work and at home, rewiring social policy to meet the needs of diverse 21st century families, and, instead of seeking status in busyness, recapturing the value of leisure. She was an award-winning journalist at the Washington Post and Washington Post Magazine, and was part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband and their two children.