Susan Linn

Susan Linn is a psychologist, awardwinning ventriloquist, and a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of media and commercial marketing on children. She was the founding director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Cildhood (now called Fairplay) and is currently research associate at Boston Children's Hospital and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. The author of Consuming Kids and The Case for Make Believe (both published by the New Press), she lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.