This blog is written by Letha Dawson Scanzoni and Kimberly B. George. As they launched it in the summer of 2008, they were aware that the digits of their respective ages were exactly reversed. Letha was 72 and Kimberly was 27, hence the title and the numeric nicknames they use for their posts.
Letha Dawson Scanzoni (alias “72″) is an author, editor, and writing consultant who lives in Norfolk, Virginia. She is the editor of Christian Feminism Today and the EEWC website and has authored or coauthored nine books. Letha was one of the pioneering writers in the biblical feminist movement that began in the 1960s and ’70s as second wave feminism arose.
Kimberly B. George (alias “27″) is a writer and teacher living in Seattle, Washington. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled, Bites from the Apple: Memoir of a Young Christian Feminist. It tells of her struggles to find and express her authentic voice as a young Christian woman awakening to third wave feminism in a new century. Kimberly also writes two other blogs: Shaft of Sunlight and Faith and Gender: A Necessary Conversation.
As described in the first post, “How It All Began,” the authors met through email in April, 2008 when Kimberly wrote to Letha with some questions after reading one of her books. They met in person for the first time at the EEWC Conference held in Indianapolis in late June, 2008 and are shown here taking a break from the conference to enjoy milkshakes at a sidewalk cafe.