Health & Fitness
Kid-Driven Fast Forward Evolves Into a Magazine, Turns 25
"It's all about letting that little light bulb go off," says co-founder Winifred Macleod.
More than 15 years ago, Nina Catalano was a smart sixth grader at Mill Valley Middle School who had a difficult childhood and limited expectations for her future.
Then she found out about Fast Forward, the for-kids, by-kids Mill Valley newspaper created by Winifred and John Macleod out of the rubble of the now-defunct Mill Valley Record in 1991. Within months, Catalano was interviewing the likes of Kobe Bryant, Anne Hathaway and even local legend Robin Williams, whose lightning fast tongue and massive, multi-syllabic vocabulary didn’t faze her.
