Priscilla Pardini is a freelance writer and editor based in Milwaukee and a former education reporter for the Milwaukee Journal. She is the author of Women Making a Difference: American Association of University Women in Milwaukee, 1894-2012, and The Faye McBeath Foundation: A Story of Giving, which won the Wilmer Shields Rich Award for Excellence in Communication. Her other work includes On Her Own: The Life of Betty Brinn, a biography for children about the philanthropist for whom the city's children's museum and children's room at the Milwaukee Public Library are named.