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Ophira
Edut is a writer, editor, designer and social entrepreneur who
has spent a decade creating independent media projects for young
women of all cultures and sizes. A contributor to numerous magazines
and anthologies, Ophira lectures nationwide about body image, media,
and culture. Ophira is
the co-owner of Mediarology, a media consulting and creative
services company based in New York City. In 1992, she founded
the national, multicultural young women's magazine HUES
(Hear Us Emerging Sisters), an award-winning national
young women's magazine that was published until 1999.
Ophira edited the anthology Body
Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity
(Seal Press; Foreword by Rebecca Walker). Now required curriculum
at colleges nationwide, the book has been adapted into a stageplay
and republished in Greek and Chinese. Ophira and her twin sister
Tali also write empowering horoscopes for 35 million women
a month through various media (Elle.com, MyLifetime.com, Latina.com) and
their own website Astrostyle.com.
They have read charts for celebrity clients including Stevie
Wonder, Beyonce and Avril Lavigne.
A
Detroit native and the daughter of an American rabbi (mom) and an Israeli landscaper (dad), Ophira graduated from
the University of Michigan in 1994. She now lives in New York,
and spends her time lecturing, writing and designing. She is married and the mom to two girls, stepdaughter Clementine and daughter Cybele (born in 2010).
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