Editor’s note: Ms. Minahan is the co-author of The Behavior Code, along with our other interviewee in this issue Nancy Rappaport, MD (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press; 2012). Ms. Minahan is also the author of The Behavior Code Companion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press; 2014).
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