Sheryl E. Mendlinger, Ph.D., is a daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother to four. She started her first entrepreneurship business, designing macramé jewelry, as a mother of 2 small children under the age or 3. She began her BA at the age of 33, when her daughter Yael began first grade; received her M.A. at age 44; and Ph.D. when she became a grandmother at the age of 57. Sheryl’s academic expertise and publications are in understanding the inter-generational transmission of knowledge and health behaviors from mother to daughter in multicultural populations. She currently works at Northeastern University and teaches Business Communication at Boston University. Sheryl loves to shop, cook, knit, design macramé, swim, row, dragon boat, spend time with her family, and laugh.