Gabrielle Stanley Blair is the founder of Alt Summit, the blockbuster biannual conference for lifestyle bloggers and creative entrepreneurs, currently in its twelfth year. She is also the founder of DesignMom.com. Started in 2006, it has been named a Website of the Year by
Time magazine, praised as a top parenting blog by
The Wall Street Journal,
Parents, and
Better Homes & Gardens, and won the Iris Award for Blog of the Year. Her first book,
Design Mom: How to Live with Kids, a
New York Times bestseller, was published in 2015 by Artisan.
On her website, Gabrielle covers the intersection of design and parenting, with thoughtful posts on topics like how to talk to your kids about sex, family travel, food kids will really eat, political issues, and family-friendly design.
Gabrielle and her husband, Ben Blair, have six children--Ralph, Maude, Olive, Oscar, Betty, and Flora June. Her family divides their time between the United States and France. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @designmom.
