Dr. Ruth Nemzoff is author of "Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children" and "Don't Roll Your Eyes: Making In-Laws into Family" and is a resident scholar at Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center.

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She has given lectures in over 350 venues on emerging adulthood, parenting adult children, empty nest, intermarriage, grandparenting, and family dynamics in intergenerational families.

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Currently, she is an advice columnist for the American Israelite, as well as a frequent blogger for The Huffington Post and Betterafter50. She serves on the boards of Interfaith Family and Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center. 

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Her papers are archived at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University which granted her a doctorate in social policy. She has served three terms in the New Hampshire Legislature and was New Hampshire Deputy Commissioner of Health and Welfare.

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She is the mother of four adult children, four in-law children and grandmother of eleven. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband Harris Berman, Dean of Tufts University School of Medicine.