--- title: Rebecca Brenner | TIME description: Brenner is an author and co-founder of Mindful. Summit County, a nonprofit focused on moving mindfulness past self-care, into community care canonical: https://time.com/author/rebecca-brenner/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/rebecca-brenner/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Rebecca Brenner ## Rebecca Brenner [Brenner](https://www.rebeccabrenner.com/) is an author and co-founder of [Mindful. Summit County,](https://www.mindfulsummitcounty.org/) a nonprofit focused on moving mindfulness past self-care, into community care ## Rebecca Brenner *  Mar 1, 2023 ### [How I Support My Child in the Face of Utah’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Health Care](https://time.com/6258586/utah-transgender-bill-essay/) Supporting my child’s gender expression isn’t hard. Shielding him from anti-trans stories is, writes... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 22, 2022 ### [The Revolutionary Power of Female Friendship During the Holidays](https://time.com/6242540/revolutionary-female-friendship-holidays/) "Through their words and presence, my female friends have taught me how to live, shaping the soft sp... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/rebecca-brenner/","name":"Rebecca Brenner"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/rebecca-brenner/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/rebecca-brenner/"},"name":"Rebecca Brenner","jobTitle":null,"description":"Brenner is an author and co-founder of Mindful. Summit County, a nonprofit focused on moving mindfulness past self-care, into community care","url":"https://time.com/author/rebecca-brenner/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```