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15 Reasons for 15 Years: Day 6

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Girls Write Now
By Girls Write Now

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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For 25 years, Girls Write Now has been breaking down barriers of gender, race, age and poverty to mentor the…

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