I have spent the last 48 years as a career counselor, twenty-one as Director of Radcliffe Career Services.  There I counseled hundreds of clients, trained two generations of career counselors, and through powerful videos and innovative workshops directly influenced the growth of the career counseling profession.   I built Radcliffe's career office, developing its counseling, library, and programs, and then opened the office to the community. In honor of my service, I was made Director of Radcliffe Career Services and Programs, Emerita. In 1997, I resigned from Radcliffe to focus my attention on my growing private practice of career counseling and coaching, now in its twenty-seventh year.

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Before coming to Radcliffe, I counseled adult men and women on a range of personal issues, and founded and coordinated the Boston Reevaluation Counseling Community.  With Cambridge Documentary Films, I co-produced two nationally distributed videos on career counseling: the award-winning Not Just a Job: Career Planning for Women and Life's Work: Four Approaches to Career Counseling.

I have a BA from Radcliffe and Harvard Colleges and an EdM in Human Development from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.  My now deceased husband, Maurice R. Stein, formerly a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Brandeis University, and I raised two children, one now a professor of environmental studies and the other a high school history teacher. We lived in the same house in Cambridge for more than 57 years.

 

As a hobby, I have spent almost two decades helping rescue German Shepherds, and adopted four of them, two of whom I trained and showed to their first level obedience titles.  Their ribbons hang in a place of honor.  Before I started down this path, I had not trained an animal to show since I was seven years old, grooming calves for the 4H fair. I have also been the American representative for an Israeli foundation, fundraising to translate memoirs of child holocaust survivors into English.