About Us

Jodee Kulp

Jodee is the Executive Director of Better Endings New Beginnings, founded in 1986 as an outreach to promote social awareness of the needs of the least of our citizens. Their mission is giving ordinary people, extraordinary voices to show that better endings are possible and new beginnings can be achieved with powerful stories to inspire, build hope and provide wisdom to change the world one person at a time. Over the past thirty years Jodee has commercially worked in communications, marketing, graphics and publishing overseeing the production of over 35,000 projects from corporate identity and book design to 1200 page catalogs.

Jodee is working on a high school curriculum using "The Best I Can Be" and "The Whitest Wall" as cornerstone pieces to develop awareness of Fetal Alcohol. "Tiger Butterly" the 2nd in the The Bootleg Brothers Trilogy will be released September 2009.

"There are few pioneers who must not only pave the path for others to follow...but also must define the landscape to illustrate its existence. Jodee Kulp has written and published more books about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders than any other parent advocate in our time. Her work has provided assistance to thousands of families and individuals living with FASDs. By documenting Jodee's own experience and that of her daughter, Liz, she has helped parents teach their children how to navigate the world while living with this life long devastating developmental disability. Jodee lectures internationally and has begun a pilot program to train dogs to assist young adults with FASDs. Jodee's hope for the future is that the projet can isolate complications and differences of needs for this specialized psychiatric services dog work and the "Knarlwoods" is the first certified training facility created for this purpose. Jodee's expertise and experience is surpassed only by her creative insight in presenting difficult information in a unique and entertaining manner. It is an honor to work with Jodee and consider her my colleague."
Donnie Kanter Winokur, Chair, FASD Advisory Committee, Atlanta Alliance on Developmental Disabilities

“Jodee is a passionate publisher who puts her heart into her work as an advocate for children who suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome. She channels her compassion through hard work and skillful graphic design. Working with her was a wonderful experience.” September 25, 2008 Michele Sobota, Principal, MediaConnections

Deb Fjeld

Deb Fjeld is a parent of four children with numerous diagnoses, including FASD, ADHD, ODD and Bipolar. She works with adoptive families in the Twin Cities as a parent liaison for MN Adoption Support and Preservation. She has a passion for working with kids who have a mental illness diagnosis and helping families find good working strategies to help their children succeed.

Deb has a Bachelors Degree in American Studies and Mass Communications from Moorhead State University.

When she is not advocating for families and caregiving, she likes to scrapbook memories of the awesome vacations her family takes yearly. She also has a passion for Tae Kwon Do, and is pursuing a black belt at Professional Karate Studios in Blaine, MN.

Contact: debfjeld@yahoo.com