Shaunti Feldhahn

Shaunti Feldhahn started out as an analyst on Wall Street and ended up a surprise best-selling author and speaker. Shaunti is also a weekly opinion columnist for ajc.com, and an active participant in several business, non-profit and policy initiatives. More importantly, Shaunti is a wife, the mother of two young children, and an active member of her church. Shaunti holds a master's in public policy from Harvard University, and a bachelor's in government and economics from The College of William & Mary in Virginia. She served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee during S&L and banking reform, and later worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, tracking the Asian-market crisis for leaders at the highest levels of the Federal Reserve System and the federal government. In 1998, Shaunti authored a runaway best-seller "Y2K: The Millennium Bug; A Balanced Christian Response" (Multnomah), which was viewed as instrumental in encouraging the faith community toward a positive, service-oriented response to the year 2000 issue. After authoring two spiritual thrillers that confronted many vital issues of life and faith, she returned with another hit nonfiction book in fall 2004, "For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men." Three more "What You Need to Know" books are in the works, and Shaunti has become a popular speaker on the national circuit and in media reaching people of faith. Shaunti is a founding member of the Board of Directors of We Care America, a group dedicated to helping care ministries meet the needs of our communities more effectively. Through WCA, Shaunti has worked to network and involve the faith community with critical policy issues such as the faith-based initiative. Shaunti has been featured on such Christian-market and secular media outlets as Focus on the Family, The 700 Club, Life Today, NPR, PBS television, and TNT, reaching an audience of tens of millions with messages of faith. For the last few years, she has also written weekly opinion columns for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, currently contributing the conservative voice for the popular online Woman to Woman column, which has been picked up by newspapers around the country. Shaunti and her husband Jeff, a technology executive, make their home in Atlanta with their young daughter and son.

Andrea Sarvady

Andrea Sarvady is the left-leaning writer of the "Woman to Woman" team. Born and raised in Northern California, Sarvady received a degree in English from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree in counseling with an emphasis in marital and family therapy from the University of San Francisco.

Her writing career has developed in tandem with a variety of educational endeavors, including teaching developmentally disabled adults, running a school volunteer program in San Francisco and a peer counseling program in Brooklyn, N.Y. A passionate volunteer, she has focused most of her efforts on organizations involving the AIDS crisis and youth empowerment.

Her articles on topics such as the pressures of domesticity, religion in the workplace and the aftermath of 9/11 have appeared in a variety of regional and national magazines. In addition, Savardy is the author of four books: two on film, one on the vagaries of modern life and a parenting book that became an Amazon best-seller.

She currently teaches writing at a junior high school in Atlanta, Georgia, where she lives with her husband, Glen, and their three daughters.