Shelly Cryer

SHELLY CRYER spent more than 25 years working in the nonprofit sector, with a focus on women’s rights, public health, international affairs, and nonprofit sector leadership. She is the author of The Nonprofit Career Guide: How to Land a Job That Makes a Difference.

The Nonprofit Career Guide was a finalist for the 2008 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Career category. Cryer holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Duke University.

When she’s not writing, Cryer founded the Initiative for Nonprofit Sector Careers, a research and advocacy project begun in 2002 and housed at American Humanics, and launched the national Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition. Her earlier career included work for the Feminist Majority Foundation and the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project.

Shelly lives in the New York City area.

Shelly Cryer’s books are published by Fieldstone Alliance, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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