Liz Funk is a speaker, journalist, and author writes about Generation Y, focusing especially on perfectionism, young women’s wellness, and youth trends.  She has been published in USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, the Washington Post, New York magazine, CosmoGIRL!, the Huffington Post, the New Jersey Record, the Baltimore Sun, the Nation, Tango magazine, Vibe Vixen magazine, the Times Union, and Girls’ Life, among other publications. For two years she wrote a blog about young women’s issues for the Albany, NY newspaper the Times Union; before that, she was a columnist at the Altamont Enterprise when she was in high school.  Her poetry and short stories have been published in the Rockland Review, the Georgetown Review, Peace and Freedom (UK), and Offerta Speciale (Italy), among many other media outlets.

Liz is an avid speaker who frequently gives lectures and teaches workshops about perfectionism, college student wellness, women’s issues, and journalism.  She has spoken at Rice University, Columbia University, Hampshire College, the University of New England, Russell Sage College, Pace University, the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, SUNY Buffalo, and NYU.  She is a regular instructor at the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s conferences for high school journalists at Columbia University.  Liz also works as a writing coach for aspiring journalists, poets, and novelists; you can e-mail her at lizDOTfunk@gmailDOTcom for more information and rates.

She is a senior fellow of Young People For/People for the American Way Foundation and she is a member of the advisory board for Ypulse.com, where is a frequent contributor.  She has also served on the National Organization for Women Young Feminist Task Force.

Supergirls Speak Out: Inside the Secret Crisis of Overachieving Girls is Liz’s first book, which was featured in Newsday, Elle, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and on the Today Show.   Liz is at work on a novel about college students in downstate New York and a screenplay.