Linda J. Smith has been a lactation consultant, childbirth educator, and public speaker for more than forty years. She holds a master's degree in public health, is an adjunct instructor in the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University in Dayton Ohio, and is the author of four professional textbooks on birth and breastfeeding. Linda has lectured in twenty-two countries and her presentations have been translated into fifteen languages including Inuktitut.