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Hannah S. Hess came to the US via Ecuador. Educated in the New York City public schools, she worked as a high school English teacher, assistant principal, and principal there. The mother of three grown children, she lives in New York with her husband, Walter, a poet and film-maker. She is the author of The Third Side of the Desk: How Parents Can Change the Schools.