Author event! Archer Circle of Moms presents Chelsey Goodan + Morgan Walsh!

The Archer Circle of Moms invites you to an intimate conversation with Chelsey Goodan, author of UNDERESTIMATED: THE WISDOM AND POWER OF TEENAGE GIRLS at Zibby's Bookshop! Chelsey will be joined by a Morgan Walsh, co-founder of Open Books.

About UNDERESTIMATED:

Written with warmth and humor, UNDERESTIMATED is the first book to invite us into a teenage girl’s brain and heart, as told from the point of view of a beloved and trusted mentor. Chelsey Goodan is a highly sought-after academic tutor who has worked with hundreds of girls from all different backgrounds, earning their trust, confidence, and friendship. They in turn have shared with her their innermost concerns, doubts, and what they wish they could communicate to their parents and the world at large.

With topics and language directly chosen by the girls, Goodan reveals how the solutions to a girl’s well-being lie within her. She offers parents the exact words they can use to help her discover these solutions and demonstrates how adults can better support a teenage girl’s voice to create positive change.

Rather than dismissing teenage girls based on our own fears or treating them as problems that need to be solved, Goodan encourages us as parents, and as a society, to help girls unleash their power and celebrate their intrinsic wisdom, creating more healing and connection for everyone. With inspiring ease, Underestimated shows us how to do this with accessible advice, entertaining narratives, and profound wisdom.

About the author:

Chelsey Goodan has been an academic tutor and mentor for sixteen years, with a particular emphasis on the empowerment of teenage girls. She regularly speaks to audiences about gender justice, conducts workshops, and coaches parents on how to better understand and connect with their daughters. She is the founder of The Activist Cartel and the mentorship director of DemocraShe, a nonprofit that guides teenage girls from historically underrepresented communities into leadership positions. As an activist, she advises public figures, galvanizes volunteers, and organizes large-scale events for national nonprofits, while also serving on the board of A Call to Men, a nonprofit working to end gender-based violence. Her passion to explore humanity’s potential for authenticity, liberation, and empowerment permeates all of her work. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Chelsey lives in Los Angeles.

Morgan Walsh is an actor, writer, producer and mother of three living in Los Angeles. Her film and TV credits include series regular roles on BET’s Games People Play and the Bachelor spoof Burning Love. In addition to recurring roles on Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later, opposite Paul Rudd, TruTV’s I’m Sorry and HBO’s Veep; Morgan has guest starred on many shows including Brooklyn 99, Shameless, CBS’s Life in Pieces and ABC’s Happy Endings. Most recently, she can be seen in Unplugging, a romcom starring Eva Longoria and Morgan’s real-life husband, the very handsome and celebrated comedic actor, Matt Walsh. Unplugging was released in theaters in spring of 2022, and is available streaming.

Morgan is also a cofounder of Open Books, a 501(c)3 non-profit that donates LGBTQ+ affirming storybooks to public school libraries. To date, she and her cofounder Keiko Feldman have partnered with over 1,200 schools in states including California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah and Arizona providing nearly one million children with access to these acclaimed and important titles.

Currently, Morgan is honoring the 100-year anniversary of the ERA (which still has yet to pass in all 50 states) by producing a documentary feature with director Kristin Fairweather on the systemic challenges and toxic social messaging that contribute to our country’s labor disparity and the severe toll it’s taking on women in the United States. Sounds fun right?!