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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