15 Reasons for 15 Years: Day 6

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

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