Meet The Team

After her newspaper column “Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone” landed her on NPR, Fox News and everywhere in between, Lenore went on to write Free-Range Kids, the book-turned-movement. She has been profiled in The New Yorker, hosted the reality show, “World’s Worst Mom,” and has lectured everywhere from Disney to Microsoft to schools across the country — and the Bulgarian Happiness Festival. It was Lenore who created the annual “Take Our Children to the Park…And Leave Them There Day.” She is obsessive about The Let Grow Project, which she predicts will one day be in every school just like P.E. — but without the humiliating uniforms.

Andrea has worked in the start-up ed-tech industry in professional development, operations, customer success and sales for over 14 years, after spending her early career as a teacher in multiple states. She has a B.A. from Cal State, Fresno, and is a longtime certified Project Management Professional. At Let Grow, she brings her unique education and business background to manage our operations and expand our school and parent programs. She loves living in Las Vegas with her much-appreciated and endearingly goofy husband, vacationing in Mexico, and is a proud Trekkie. She has two adult children, both independent and married.

Once called the “conscience of the child welfare system” — by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director she sued — Diane has been a child and family advocate since she graduated from Stanford Law in 1979. She has litigated dozens of major cases, led non-profits, taught at the University of Chicago Law School, and helped forge national and state coalitions that protect the rights of families to raise their kids, including United Family Advocates. Diane has been a Let Grow mom ever since her son successfully blocked her from helping him with his Cub Scout Pinewood Derby — and he went on to win the Best Car award!