Charlene Prince Birkeland

Charlene Prince Birkeland is the parenting editor for Shine, Yahoo's new site for women. Before joining Yahoo!, she was the managing editor of Mayas Mom, a social network for parents, where she also led blogger outreach efforts. Maya's Mom was acquired by Babycenter in 2007. She’s also freelanced for the San Francisco Chronicle and served as the editor of the working mom blog JobMom.net. Her writing has appeared on a host of other online parenting sites such as Blogging Baby for AOL, Droolicious for Babble and Family.com for Disney.

Charlene lives in Silicon Valley with her husband, two sons and a one-year-old Labrador Retriever named Luna. They make wonderful fodder for her personal blog, crazedparent.org, which she started in 2004.