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Cory Silverberg

Cory Silverberg is a Canadian sex educator, author, public speaker, blogger and founding member of Come As You Are.

Silverberg is Jewish, and grew up in a "middle class liberal Canadian home in the '70s." A certified sex educator and former chair of sexuality educator certification for the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, they teach on topics including sex and disability, sex and technology, and pleasure, inclusion, and access across North America. Silverberg is the co-author of the "Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability" and since 2005 has been the Sexuality Guide for About.com.

Silverberg's children's book ''What Makes a Baby'' was the most funded children's book project on Kickstarter to date, and was released in 2012. In May 2015, Seven Stories Press published ''Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU'', which Maria Popova described as a "candid, inclusive, stereotype-defying, and absolutely wonderful primer on sexuality and gender". In ''Today's Parent'', Tara-Michelle Ziniuk compared the colourful nonfiction book to a "literary Magic School Bus of sex ed".

Silverberg graduated from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, from which they received a master's of education. Provided by Wikipedia