Gina Gallagher

Raised in Maynard, Massachusetts, Gina Gallagher is an award-winning freelance writer, speaker, and author. In 1999, she founded, Gina Gallagher Communications, a firm that provides copywriting, editing, and strategic communications consulting to some of the country's leading businesses.  In 2006, she co-wrote with her sister, Patricia, a humorous book about raising special children in a perfection pre-occupied world. The book, Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid: A Survival Guide for Ordinary Parents of Special Children, was picked up by Random House and a new edition was released in August 2010.

Gina and her sister have traveled around the country speaking at autism, parenting, educational, and other conferences to share their knowledge about raising their children.

Gina is a winner of an esteemed Hatch Award for advertising excellence and a co-winner of the National Alliance on Mental Illness' Heroes in the Fight Award for her work in helping make life easier for those with serious and persistent mental illness. Along with her sister, she also was recognized as a 2011 award winner in the YWCA of Merrimack Valley's Tribute to Women.

As part of their work in the special needs community, Gina and Patty have written and help produce The Imperfection Connection, a Web-TV program on Family Network TV, a network dedicated to supporting and educating the special needs community

She graduated from Assumption College and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management.

She is most proud of her accomplishment in raising her two daughters, Katie and Emily, who overcome the challenges of living with Asperger's Syndrome and non-verbal learning disability every day. Gina resides in Marlborough, MA with her husband, Michael, and daughters.