Lenore Skenazy

President, Let Grow

Lenore Skenazy is president of Let Grow, a nonprofit promoting childhood independence which she helped co-found. Her 2008 newspaper column “Why I Let my 9 year-old ride the subway alone” landed her in the limelight and lead to her writing Free-Range Kids, a book that started a movement. She claims, “Our kids are safer, smarter, and stronger than our culture gives them credit for.”