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About Brad
R. Bradley Snyder has spent nearly three decades managing projects targeting children and adolescents for clients ranging from Cartoon Network to the U.S. Justice Department (for whom his project won the Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard University). At the age of 19, Brad helped found HomeBase Youth Services, a shelter for homeless and runaway youth. In 1994, he ran one of the inaugural AmeriCorps programs. In 2005, Brad helped launch MentorE Online Youth Services, an organization that uses technology to link at-risk youth with caring mentors. Experts describe Brad’s book, The 5 Simple Truths of Raising Kids, as an “urgent ‘must-read.’” Titles from his What Every Child Needs To Know children’s book series (…About Elvis Presley, …About Cancer, …About Punk Rock, …About The Economy, …About Pizza and …About Coffee), which he coauthors with Dr. Marc Engelsgjerd to explain adults to children, have received numerous accolades, including being a “staff pick” at the Museum of Modern Art bookstore in New York City. Brad holds an Ed.M. in Human Development Psychology, with a specialization in Adolescent Risk and Prevention, from Harvard University and an M.P.A. in Public Policy from New York University.
Select Publications
The 5 Simple Truths of Raising Kids
What Every Child Needs To Know About Elvis Presley
What Every Child Needs To Know About Coffee
In the News
"If we're going make the strides that we need to make as a valley, to really improve our economy but also improve our education system, we have to be a little disruptive. We have to be a little bit crazy."
- Brad Snyder
May 2015