Liz Funk
Liz Funk, 18, is the founder and editor of Girl HeadQuarters. Her writing has appeared in Newsday, theNation.com, AlterNet, the Huffington Post, and the New Humanist (UK). She writes a blog for the Albany, NY newspaper the Times Union and a column for her school newspaper, the Pace Press. She is an English and women’s studies major, journalism minor at Pace University in New York City. Her role models are Arianna Huffington, Maureen Dowd, Alexandra Robbins, Curtis Sittenfeld, Iara Peng, and Anna Quindlen. When not writing, sleeping, telling knock-knock jokes or on the phone with her mom, she is prancing around Manhattan’s Upper East Side pretending to be Carrie Bradshaw, causing trouble with her little sister, Allie, or screening How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days for the umpteenth time. She is a fellow of Young People For and has worked with Choice USA and the National Organization for Women. Her book, Supergirls Speak Out: the Secret Dilemma of Overachieving Girls, with be published by Touchstone/Fireside in January of 2009. Contact Liz at liz@girlheadquarters.org with press inquiries, offers to donate or advertise, and knock-knock jokes.
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Latest Posts by Liz Funk:
My Op-Ed about Zac Efron, Guyliner, and How Masculinity Has Shifted
Posted in General: August 1st, 2008
Cross-post from Kibkabe Araya
Posted in Celebrities, Check this out!: July 18th, 2008
Guest Blogger: Clare Langan
Posted in Relationships, Books, Check this out!: July 10th, 2008
HOW TO BE BAD
Posted in Growing up, Books, Check this out!: July 6th, 2008
Guest Blogger: Blair Brettschneider
Posted in Growing up, Relationships: July 4th, 2008
Guest Blogger: Lisa Marie Basile
Posted in Girl power, Music: July 1st, 2008
SUMMER INTERN
Posted in Media, Books, Check this out!: June 29th, 2008
Guest Blogger: Casey McNulty
Posted in Sex, Media, Body image, Check this out!, Writing: June 23rd, 2008
Guest Post: Courtney Macavinta
Posted in Girl power, Sex, Activism, Check this out!: June 22nd, 2008
Need Help with Your College Application Essays?
Posted in College, Books, Check this out!: June 20th, 2008