Margaret Griffiths (also known as Peg) received a BA in Psychology from the U. of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the U. of Texas at Austin in 1974. After a year's internship at the Judge Baker Guidance Center in Boston, she joined the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the U. of Kentucky. Moving to Chicago, she joined the staff of Children's Memorial Hospital in the Department of Child Psychiatry. After five years, she began a private practice and then served as Senior Psychologist at Cook County Hospital (now called Stroger Hospital) for 25 years. Margaret retired in 2020 and lives in Chicago's Lincoln Park, not far from her son, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren.