When Lynn Tuttle Gunney couldn’t find a book about the historical Jesus for her two young children at Christmastime, she decided to write one.
A writer all her life, Lynn has applied her skills to a career in business communications for nearly 20 years. She worked for four Fortune 500 companies before starting her own marketing communications consultancy in 2000.
Lynn teaches religious education and the Our Whole Lives program to young children at Mount Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church in Walnut Creek, Calif. She presented a workshop titled Nurturing Spirituality in Children at the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly meeting this summer.
Lynn began working with children and young people at an early age, starting as a teacher’s helper with special education children at her elementary school and as a tutor in high school.
As an adult, she served as the professional advisor for public relations students at a local university and was a speaker at the 2002 Public Relations Student Society of America National Conference. She also was the Oakland leader of a national program to foster diversity in the public relations field by bringing PR professionals and curriculum to inner-city high schools.
Lynn has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and the Pleasanton Mothers Club.
Lynn was born in Erie, Pa., but considers herself a “Midwestern girl,” having lived in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan. After reading Fast Times at Ridgemont High at age 16, she vowed she would never raise a family in California, but she now lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband, son and daughter -- and loves it. In addition to family activities, she enjoys ballroom dancing, reading, photography and chocolate.
