As we count down the last 15 days of our Holiday Appeal, we’re giving you 15 reasons — one per day — why we’ve been the premier writing organization for New York City’s underserved teen girls for 15 years.
Our mentors are superheroes, meeting with their mentees at least once a week and attending monthly workshops with them – all this on top of their day jobs! Here’s a sampling of what they do when they’re not editing poetry or designing a GWN workshop:
- Sports Reporter, Associated Press
- Former Executive Director, Teachers & Writers Collaborative
- Emmy-nominated television writer for As the World Turns and All My Children
- Entertainment Blogger, The Huffington Post
- Digital News Editor, The New Yorker
- Editor, The New York Times Book Review
- Senior Beauty Editor, InStyle.com
- Investigative Reporter, Reuters
- Executive Editor, Roaring Brook Press
- Senior Writer, Siegel+Gale
- Publicist, NBC Entertainment
- Author of more than 30 non-fiction books
- Author, Brooklyn to Bombay, Finalist for Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
- Author, The Haunted House, winner of the 2008 Gatewood Prize