Biography
Lynn Harris is the communications strategist for Breakthrough, a global human rights organization based in New York and India that uses the power of pop culture, media, and community mobilization to build a culture of dignity, equality, and respect. She spent the 20 years before as an author, essayist, commentator, and award-winning journalist. Her most recent book was the satirical novel Death By Chick Lit, which New York Magazine called “brilliant.”
She is also co-creator—with supergenius Chris Kalb—of the award-winning website BreakupGirl.net, online headquarters of the only superhero who rescues men and women from romantic emergencies.
Lynn is the pro-bono Public Relations Coordinator for the Afghan Women’s Writing Project.
A standup comic for 10 years (now retired), Lynn also co-wrote and co-starred in the Off-Off Broadway show “Lynn Harris on Ice,” which sold out its run in 2002. She appears frequently at literary readings around New York City.
Lynn lives with her husband, David, and young children, Bess and Sam, in Park Slope, Brooklyn. A former ice hockey player, native of Lexington, MA, and Yale grad, she spends her free time worshipping Dolly Parton, making legendary guacamole, and volunteering as a tutor with 826NYC and a mentor with The Op-Ed Project. She suspects that she is the only person in history who completes this trifecta: Daughter of the American Revolution, Friar, rabbi’s wife.
