Suzanne Braun Levine papers

Suzanne Braun Levine graduated from Radcliffe College in 1963 and is a writer and editor. She joined Ms. Magazine as managing editor at its founding in 1972 and later served as vice-president. She then went on to be editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, 1989-1997. A frequent televison commentator on shows such as Today and Good Morning America, Levine is the author or editor of several books including She's Nobody's Baby (She also produced the television special of the same name in 1981) and Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way (co-authored with Mary Thom, 2007). More recently, Levine has focused on women in "midlife"or what she refers to as "second adulthood"on her Web site (www.suzannebraunlevine.com) and in books such as Inventing the Rest of Our Lives (2005) and Fifty is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood (2009).

She has been a Poynter Fellow at Yale University and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Pomona College in addition to lecturing at several journalism schools and workshops. She has been honored by the Association for Education Journalism and Mass Communication and is an active member of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). She is a founding member of the Women’s Media Group and a board member of the Women’s Action Alliance.