Joe Kelly (author)
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In 1999 Joe Kelly co-founded Dads and Daughters (DADs), the first national advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters in the United States, with Michael Kieschnick. DADs provides men the tools to be better fathers and advocates for daughters. DADs owns the newsletter Daughters: For Parents of Girls.
A journalist by training, Kelly is an award-winning national speaker and primary media source on fathering, and an author specializing in family issues and has been featured in hundreds of media outlets, including the Today Show, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Time, People, New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. He also co-authors, ghostwrites and provides consulting services for authors.
Before working on girls’ and fathering issues, Kelly was a reporter, producer, and regional news director for Minnesota Public Radio. In his 20s, he worked as an actor with the Nebraska Theater Caravan at the Omaha Community Playhouse.
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[edit] Publications
- Kelly, Joe (May 14, 2002). Dads and Daughters: How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter When She's Growing Up So Fast, hardcover 1st. ed., Broadway. ISBN 0-7679-0833-3.
- Kelly, Joe (May 4, 2004). Pocket Idiot’s Guide for the Expectant Father, paperback, Alpha. ISBN 1-59257-224-3.
- Kelly, Joe (October 5, 2004). Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Being a New Dad, paperback, Alpha. ISBN 1-59257-290-1.
- Maine, Margo; Joe Kelly (June 28, 2005). The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect, hardcover, John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-69158-5.
- Beckman, Chris; Joe Kelly (August 15, 2005). Clean: A New Generation in Recovery Speaks Out, paperback, Hazelden. ISBN 1-59285-182-7.
Kelly also wrote the play “This Horse of a Body of Mine” (an adaptation of the short story by Norbert Bly) and co-edited four nonfiction books for girls.
In 1993, Kelly and his wife Nancy Gruver founded the groundbreaking international publication, New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams, edited by girls 8 to 14 years old.
[edit] Awards and recognition
- Parenting magazine’s 1995 Parenting Achievement Award: 1995 with wife Nancy Gruver
- iParenting.com’s Dad of the Year: 2001
- Women’s Sports Foundations Title IX Father of the Year: 2004
- Eating Disorders Coalition’s Activist of the Year award: 2004
- New Moon is the only child-edited publication to win the prestigious Parent’s Choice Foundation Gold Award multiple times.
[edit] Organizational memberships
- National Practitioners Network for Fathers and Families
- Center for Family Policy and Practice
- Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood board member
[edit] Personal
Born in northern New Jersey in 1954, Kelly grew up in Ohio and Southern New Jersey. He attended LeMoyne College and eventually graduated in his 40s from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He and Gruver have twin daughters, born in 1980.
