Blogging and college essays? You bet. Guest blogger and rising high school senior Fiona Lowenstein is back from summer vacation with her latest post about the unanticipated benefits of putting herself out there online, week after week.

Want to talk with your daughter about why she loves and struggles with social media? Here are five conversation starters for parents.

In April, 2011 Rachel spoke at an event co-sponsored by the United Way of Central Massachusetts' Women's Initiative and the Investing in Girls Alliance.

Rachel talks with NPR's Michele Norris about her research on cyberbullying for the newly revised and updated Odd Girl Out, available now.

As part of her new series celebrating the revised and updated Odd Girl Out, join Rachel on a tour of BFF 2.0, girls' online social universe.

In the newly revised and updated Odd Girl Out, Rachel explores the power of an adult's empathy for a targeted or bullied girl.

High school senior Fiona Lowenstein buys a Barbie for a little boy and asks: why do gender roles have to be enforced so young?

Ten years after it was first published, Rachel has revised and updated Odd Girl Out with four new chapters of strategies & insights for girls, parents and educators.

High school senior Fiona Lowenstein hits the Cosmo Safe Sun Awards and reports back about the dangers of tanning for girls.

Rising high school senior Fiona Lowenstein asks why fitness always seems to be about weight loss for women and girls.

So-done-with-junior-year guest blogger Fiona Lowenstein serves up her guide to the junior year jungle.

Guest blogger and high school junior Fiona Lowenstein's got the good news and bad news about prom in 2011.

A woman shares her struggle and strategies to get her daughter off the destructive website Formspring.

Running for high school office, writes Fiona, is "like standing up in a big room full of people who love to judge other people, and saying, “I think I’m really smart and great and funny.'”

Why Twitter is helping women and girls be more concise, less selfless and more self-promoting.