About Gail R. Shapiro, Ed.M., Principal
Gail Shapiro and her team are pleased to bring you their experience, education, and energy to help you create harmony, efficiency, and systems that work.
Gail first worked as a professional organizer in the early 1990s, after many years in the development field, and before founding a non-profit community women’s center. She brings her clients more than 40 years of teaching and organizing skills garnered from her work as a director of development, project manager, grant proposal writer, executive director, workshop presenter, writer and editor, and strategic planning consultant, as well as a lifelong volunteer and board member at several charitable organizations.
The founder of Womankind Educational and Resource Center, Inc., and the co-creator of Womankind’s Financial Literacy Project, designed to develop and provide economic literacy training for women, Gail is the editor of and contributing author to the Project’s handbook, Money Order: The Money Management Guide for Women (Simon & Schuster, 2001). Womankind’s papers are now archived at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Gail also is the editor of and contributing author (with Michael Murphy) to NLD From the Inside Out: Talking to Parents, Teachers, and Teens About Growing Up with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (Booklocker, 2008), as well as the author or co-author of several other publications.
In 2002, she was named as a Daily Point of Light by President Bush for her many years of volunteer service to the community. She also was honored on the Wall of Fame at The National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1997. Formerly the project administrator of the Harvard School Health Education Project at the Harvard School of Public Health, she holds a B.A. degree from Framingham State College, and an Ed. M. from Harvard University. She lives in the Greater Boston area with her family.
