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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 horoscopes for 35 million women
a month through various media (Oxygen.com, Brides.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 Israeli-American, Ophira graduated from
the University of Michigan in 1994. She now lives in New York,
and spends her time lecturing, writing and designing.
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