Vanessa Kroll Bennett is the co-author of the nationally bestselling book This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained, co-host of the This Is So Awkward podcast, and co-founder of Less Awkward, a company dedicated to making growing up more comfortable. Bennett is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a masters in Jewish History, but her most important education comes from raising her own four teenaged and young adult children. She lives with her family in New York.