Deb Halliday is the author of FOX AND MOON, which is illustrated by her daughter, Maesie Halliday. Deb is an author and singer/songwriter living along the Rocky Mountain Front in Helena, Montana. She delights in the magic of our natural world. In her debut children’s book, Fox and Moon, she wonders: What does a fox do under the light of the moon?
Look for my forthcoming young adult novel, THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE! When I’m not writing, you can find me chasing whimsies along nearby mountaintops, valleys and riverbeds, dreaming up ways to invite delight and play into our lives.
For over 25 years I was honored to partner with communities around the country to harness the creative spirit and commitment of nonprofit organizations, government, philanthropy, and the private sector to tackle complex, systemic challenges in education, housing, early childhood, the arts and the environment. I served as a transformational facilitator, coach and trainer on multi-sector collaboration with groups large and small who wanted to explore how, working together, we can have an impact on the communities we live in and the lives we share.
Prior to launching Halliday & Associates, I served as Senior Policy Advisor to State Superintendent Denise Juneau (2009-2016); the Deputy Director for the Public Policy Institute (2004-2009) in Boston, Massachusetts; and the Chief Policy Analyst for the Center for Policy Analysis & Community Change in Missoula, Montana.
I am deeply grateful to the many women and men I was honored to work alongside, and I continue to serve our communities through writing, art and local activism.
As I wrote many years ago, and still hold to be true:
“I believe people are willing to and are even hungry to come together to have rich conversations, and to share different perspectives. We all want – at the core of our being – to make a difference. I believe that in the very make-up of what it is to be human, to have humanity, is our desire to make a difference, to know that the work we put in and the time we invest – the sleepless nights, the tears of victory and the tears of defeat – that all of that somehow matters. That we matter. We want, at the core, to be known, and to be seen.”