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About Brad
R. Bradley Snyder has spent three decades developing and managing projects targeting children and adolescents for entities 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.’” Rebecca Sugar, creator of Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe, said about Brad, “I learned a lot from him that informed the rest of the show.” 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 co-authors 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.
Select Publications
The 5 Simple Truths of Raising Kids
Bar Flies
What Every Child Needs To Know About Coffee
In the News

“What I also learned from these conversations with Bradley is that a bully will try to make you believe things about yourself that aren’t true. The dangerous thing is when you start to believe that those negative things about you are true.” – Rebecca Sugar
Steven Universe: End of an Era
October 2020