Let­ty Cot­tin Pogrebin

Let­ty Cot­tin Pogre­bin is a writer, activist, and nation­al lec­tur­er with a spe­cial inter­est in wom­en’s issues, Black-Jew­ish rela­tions, and dia­logue between Jews and Pales­tini­ans. A found­ing edi­tor of Ms. mag­a­zine, and a colum­nist for 30 years for Moment mag­a­zine, Let­ty’s work has also been pub­lished in The New York Times, The Nation, Time, Huff­in­g­ton Post, The For­ward and many oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. A co-founder of the Nation­al Wom­en’s Polit­i­cal Cau­cus, the Ms. Foun­da­tion for Women, and the Inter­na­tion­al Cen­ter for Peace in the Mid­dle East, Pogre­bin has served on the boards of the Bran­deis Wom­en’s and Gen­der Stud­ies Pro­gram, the Har­vard Divin­i­ty School Women in Reli­gion Pro­gram, and Ms. Foun­da­tion for Edu­ca­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Win­ner of an Emmy Award for her work as Edi­to­r­i­al Con­sul­tant on Mar­lo Thomas’ ​“Free to Be, You and Me,” Let­ty also been hon­ored for her social jus­tice activism by dozens of orga­ni­za­tions and insti­tu­tions. A grad­u­ate of Bran­deis Uni­ver­si­ty, she and her hus­band, Bert Pogre­bin, a labor and employ­ment lawyer, have three chil­dren and six grandchildren.