Rosalind Wiseman

Rosalind Wiseman is an American parenting educator and author of several publications. Her New York Times best-selling book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, released in 2002, was the basis of the hit comedy film Mean Girls (2004). A revised version of Queen Bees and Wannabees: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & the New Realities of Girl World was released on October 13, 2009. Wiseman is also the creator of the Owning Up Curriculum, a program that teaches students and educators to take responsibility as bystanders, perpetrators, and victims of unethical behavior. Wiseman grew up in Washington, D.C. with her two younger siblings and parents Steve and Kathy. She attended Occidental College in Los Angeles where she began studying Martial Arts with a fellow student James Edwards, whom she married in 1996. By the time she graduated with a BA in Political Science in 1991, Wiseman...