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Ophira
Edut is a writer, designer and entrepreneur who has spent a
decade creating groundbreaking media projects focused on teens,
women, and multicultural issues. She is the co-owner of Mediarology,
an agency that creates inclusive, affirming content for girls and
women.
In
1992, Ophira co-founded HUES, a
national, multicultural women’s magazine, which was published
until 1999. Ophira is also the editor of Body
Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image & Identity
(Seal Press, 2000), and its "outlawed" first edition,
Adios, Barbie. She has been featured in numerous anthologies
and magazines, including Ms., the New York Times, and Entertainment
Weekly. Ophira
also lectures at colleges and conferences nationwide about body
image and the media.
Ophira
and her twin sister Tali are the astrologers for 35 million people
a month. Their horoscopes appear on Brides.com,
HelloKitty.com, Oxygen.com, and on their website Astrostyle.com.
They are the co-authors of Astrostyle:
Star-studded Advice for Love, Life & Looking Good (Simon &
Schuster, 2003), and they've read charts for celebrities including
Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Nicole Richie and Avril Lavigne.
Ophira
is the daughter of an Israeli landscaper (dad) and American
rabbi (mom), who raised her in Detroit with a heady mix of Torah
and topsoil. She now lives in New York City, where she fails
to consistently attend synagogue, but does have her own backyard.
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| Hometown:
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Detroit,
Michigan |
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NYC
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| Astrological
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Sagittarius
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| Passions: |
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Biking
along the Hudson River, reading, karaoke,
astrology, writing, design of all kinds (graphic, interior),
dachshunds, being a stepmom to a cool little girl
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| Childhood
Influences that Inspire Me Today: |
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'80s
music, sticker collections, MTV, camping, Girl Scouts, Nancy
Drew, my artistic aunt and grandparents, the teen angst of being
a Jewish girl in the midst of Christmas Central (the Midwest)
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McDonald's
fry girl, BK Loungemistress, cleaning crew at fraternity
house, landscaper, clothing designer, street vendor, dot-com
executive, editor at Ms. magazine
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