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Susan Linn, Ed.D.

Associate Director, Media Center of the Judge Baker Children’s Center; Co-founder, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Description

From the website: Susan Linn is Associate Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children’s Center and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.  She has written extensively about the effects of media and commercial marketing on children. Her book, Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (The New Press) has been praised in publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal and Mother Jones.  Her articles have been published in The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Dr. Linn is a co-founder of the National Coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.  In 2000 she was appointed to the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Advertising to Children.  Her work on behalf of children has been featured on Sixty Minutes, Now with Bill Moyers, and World News Tonight. An award winning ventriloquist, Dr. Linn is internationally known for her innovative work using puppets in child psychotherapy, pioneering this work at Children’s Hospital in Boston, where she used puppets to help children cope with their hospital experiences. Combining her skills as a writer and performer with her role as a child therapist, Dr. Linn has written and appeared in a number of video programs designed to help children cope with issues ranging from mental illness to death and loss.  With Family Communications, Inc., the producers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Dr. Linn created Different and the Same: Helping Children Identify and Prevent Prejudice, video based classroom materials designed for first to third graders.  The series won the 1996 Media Award from the Association of Multicultural Educators and is being used in forty-seven states around the country.

Topic(s): Advertising/Marketing, Cognitive Development & Learning, Social Development

User Type(s): Academic, Advocate, Journalist, Policymaker

Address

Judge Baker Children’s Center
53 Parker Hill Avenue
Boston , Massachusetts 02120-3225

Contact Information

Phone(s): 617-232-8390, x2328
E-mail(s): .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
URL(s): http://www.consumingkids.com

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