Suzanne SpectorSuzanne Spector is a graduate of Barnard College and holds a master's degree from the Columbia University School of Social Work. She was Coordinator of the American Montessori Teacher Training Program, then founded and directed The Center for Open Edcation, an innovative school, before becoming the Director of the Center for Studies of the Person. At age fifty-six, she earned her PhD from The Union Institute. At age seventy-seven, she began to write. Her essays My Path to CSP and A Deeper Listening were published in the anthology A Place to Be: CSP at Fifty (2017) . Her short story Dancing Heart Emoji won the 2019 SDMWA Memoir Showcase Award and was published in Shaking the Tree: Volume Three (2021). Naked at the Helm was accepted for publication by She Writes Press when Suzanne was eighty-five years old. She lives in San Diego, CA. Read More Read Less