Kristi B. Cannon, PhD, LPC, NCC

Kristi B. Cannon, PhD, LPC, NCC, is a cis-gender, white female straddling the lines of early and middle adulthood—feeling a foot firmly planted in each camp and the associated lack of balance this causes nearly every day. She is acounselor educator, licensed professional counselor, and current Director of Counseling Programs at Southern New Hampshire University. Inspired, first and foremost, by the infinite curiosity, wisdom, and beautiful insight of the early and middle childhood years—those associated with her precious three daughters—Kristi has also spent considerable time specializing in clinical work with adolescents and women's infertility issues. Her passion for this project came out of a desire to better reflect the meaningful variations in life experiences she witnessed in her community and clinical practice and ones not often or frequently-enough named in graduate textbooks. As a woman of significant unearned privilege, it is her goal to continue learning and challenging herself every day so that she may be a better partner, parent, friend, ally, counselor, educator, and human. Her collaboration with the amazing women on this project has certainly contributed, and she hopes that you take some of this away from this book as well.