Talk to Your Boys

Joanna Schroeder is a writer, editor and media critic who is known for her bold voice and unique perspectives on parenting issues. She currently serves as managing editor of the YourTango Experts program, where she works daily with psychologists, child development experts, life coaches, and parenting consultants. She has been published in The New York Times, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, The Boston Globe, MSN, and The Huffington Post, and has appeared on TV and radio shows like "Red Table Talks" with Jada Pinkett-Smith, "AC360" with Anderson Cooper, "CBSN Originals" with Adam Yamaguchi, CBC News, PBS, NPR, The BBC, Spectrum News and more. She also served as Executive Editor of The Good Men Project. Schroeder is also co-author of the instructional publication Empowering Young Minds: A Conversation Guide for Interrupting Extremist Influence published in partnership with The Western States Center, a not-for-profit organization. She is mother to two teenage sons and a young daughter.
Christopher Pepper is an award-winning educator with a unique background in teaching, journalism, rape prevention, and curriculum development. He coordinates San Francisco Unified School District's Young Men's Health Project, which brings middle and high school boys together in small groups to talk about relationships, emotions, and healthy masculinity. After seeing a need for better sex ed lessons in his own classroom, Pepper helped create Be Real. Be Ready., a groundbreaking sexuality education curriculum that is now used in schools around the world. He also worked with the New York Times Learning Network to develop "The Reckoning: Teaching About the #MeToo Moment and Sexual Harassment," a large package of discussion prompts and classroom lessons. He's been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, Edutopia, and Greater Good Magazine, and interviewed in USA Today, Mother Jones, Mic, and on National Public Radio. In addition to being a father of two boys, he has also helped parent a foster son.