Rachel Simmons

Rachel Simmons is the author of The New York Times bestseller Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggressionin Girls, the first book to explore the phenomenon of bullying among girls. Simmons works internationally with girls,parents, and teachers to develop strategies to address bullying and to empower girls. A graduate of Vassar College in1998, Simmons won a Rhodes scholarship and attended Oxford University, where she began studying female aggression.Simmons is the founding director of the Girls’ Leadership Institute, a summer program for middle and high schoolgirls, and currently serves as a consultant to schools and organizations around the world.