About Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, is a writer, lawyer, teacher, and child advocate. Currently she is the President of the Los Angeles County Board of Education, and has just completed a memoir, Bending Toward the Sun, scheduled to be published by Harper Collins in the Fall of 2009. Gilbert-Lurie also is a founding member and past president of the Alliance for Children's Rights, a non-profit legal rights organization for indigent children, co-chair of the education committee for the Los Angeles Music Center, and a board member of several schools including Sierra Canoyn, New Village Charter School and New Roads Foundation. Finally, she is currently a member of the mayor's task force charged with developing a new cultural plan for the City of Los Angeles. Previously, Leslie spent close to a decade as an executive at NBC, where, at various times, she oversaw NBC Productions, Comedy, wrote television episodes, and co-founded a new NBC in-house production company, Lurie-Horwits productions. As a lawyer, Leslie worked briefly at the law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg and Tunney and served as a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Law Clerk. She is a graduate of UCLA and UCLA School of Law. Leslie lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, daughter and step-son.
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- 10 Ways to Minimize Your Child's Stress
- Safe at Home
- Why Remember?
- It Can't Hurt to Ask: 15 Conversations to Have with Your Parents
- Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir
- Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir