For more than 30 years, the writing, work, and community service of Alexia Parks has focused on the fields of energy, the environment, education, and communications. Author of seven books, including the acclaimed child abuse exposé An American Gulag, Alexia has served as a nationally syndicated columnist, New York City publisher for the magazine, Vision USA, and has written for the national desk of The Washington Post. She has also served as Director of Communications for a trade association representing 100 major metropolitan daily newspapers. In December 2007, Alexia was distinguished as the United Nation’s first accredited blogger at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali. At the launch of Votelink.com, which Alexia co-founded in 1995, Newsweek magazine called her “one of 50 people who matter most on the Net.”