nancy redd
Named by Glamour magazine as one of America’s top-ten college women “most likely to succeed—at anything,” 26-year-old author and motivational speaker Nancy Redd has spent the most recent years of her life on a mission to tackle the issues least discussed but most significant in young women’s lives.
In her new book Body Drama, which is a 2008 NAACP Image Award nominee, Nancy celebrates the many versions of “normal,” replacing seriously erroneous information with the honest, medically proven truth in a language all girls can understand. Body Drama dares to empower a new generation—with facts instead of fantasies, and the priceless gift of self-knowledge.
Two weeks after graduating from Harvard with an honors degree in Women’s Studies, author Nancy Redd won the title of Miss Virginia, going on to make the Top 10 and winning the swimsuit competition at Miss America 2004. Nancy once won $250,000 on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Nancy has been named L’OREAL’s Beauty of Giving Young Woman of the Year, and one of Harvard magazine’s Top Six Seniors. She is also a former National Coca-Cola Scholar, a Toyota Scholar, and an Ebony Magazine Scholar. Nancy has previously worked on The Girls’ Guide to the SAT with The Princeton Review and she was the worldwide spokesperson for Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends & Influence People for Teen Girls.
Nancy is currently CosmoGIRL! magazine’s Body & Soul expert and the Cosmogirl.com sex and health blogger. She and her unique views have been featured on E! True Hollywood Stories, NPR, PBS, Inside Edition, CBS’ The Early Show, Eyewitness Kids News, Discovery Channel, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, USA Today, The New York Times, Forbes magazine, ABC’s Good Morning America, CosmoGirl, J14, and more.
