Debra Michals is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Humanities at Merrimack College, North Andover, MA. A 20th century women’s historian, her published work includes the book She’s the Boss: The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship Since World War II (Rutgers University Press, 2025), as well as the essays “Selling Out or Staying True? Fear, Anxiety, and Debates about Feminist Entrepreneurship in the 1970s Women’s Movement,” in The Business of Emotions in Modern History (2022); “The Buck Stops Where? 1970s Feminist Credit Unions, Women’s Banks, and the Gendering of Money,” in Business and Economic History On-Line (2019); “Dads can Cuddle too: Feminism, 1960s Sitcoms, and the Making of Modern Fatherhood,” in Feminist Fathers/Fathering Feminists (2020); “From ‘Consciousness Expansion’ to ‘Consciousness Raising:’ Feminism and the Countercultural Politics of the Self” in Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s (2002), and “The Stealth Feminist Generation” (a term she coined) in Sisterhood is Forever (2003). Before becoming an historian, she worked as a journalist, publishing articles in BusinessWeek, Women’s Wear Daily, Ms., Working Woman, the Smith Alumnae Quarterly, and the New York Daily News.