Sonia Robbins:
CLASS OF 1960
Neshaminy High SchoolClass of 1960
Langhorne, PA
West Haven High SchoolClass of 1960
West haven, CT
Harriton High SchoolClass of 1960
Rosemont, PA
Edgar C. Stiles Elementary SchoolClass of 1956
West haven, CT
College of William & MaryClass of 1940
Williamsburg, VA
Sonia's Story
1960-1962: Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, including jobs in New York City and Washington, D.C.
1962-1964: Washington, D.C., working for United World Federalists, then 3 psychoanalyists, then back to UWF; living in a commune
1964: back to Antioch College, including job at New York Times; got married to Jack
1965-1967: dropped out of Antioch College a second time; went to work at Bantam Books
1966: started going to City College at night
1967-1969: City College full-time, finally graduated with B.A.
1969-present: women's liberation and feminism
1969-1972: Bobbs-Merrill Books, as secretary, then associate editor
1972: daughter, Christie, born
1972-1975: taking care of Christie, free-lance copy-editing
1975-1986: copy editor at the Village Voice, then copy chief, then deputy managing editor; writing off and on for the Voice
(1978-1983: Jack laid off and becomes primary parent)
1986-1993: full-time teaching at NYU journalism department
1987-1990: master's degree in women's studies
1990: first and only abortion
1990-1994: Christie gets B.A. at SUNY/Albany
1991: help organize founding conference of Network of East-West Women in Dubrovnik (still Yugoslavia), supp...Expand for more
orting and working with women activists in formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe
1991-1996: work part-time, then full-time for NEWW
1992-present: join writing group, writing fiction and essays
1993-2005: adjunct teaching editing at NYU journalism department
1993-present: co-moderator of workshop on women in Eastern Europe
1996-1998: free-lance copy-editing again
1997-present: start women's group on topics of women, aging, and sex
1997-2000: Christie gets library master's at University of Texas, starts working at Queens Public Library
1998-2012: copy editor at Publishers Weekly, first 3 days/week, then 4 days, then full-time; 2010 became managing editor
1998: Jack hospitalized for six weeks with blood clots and complications from treatment
1998: published memoir in "Red Diapers: Growing Up on the Communist Left"
1999-2001: on the board of NEWW, travels to Poland and Croatia for board meetings
2013-present: semi-retired from Publishers Weekly, free-lance copy editing for PW on special projects; traveling; in writing groups, book group, movie discussion group, having lots of fun.
2013- semi-retired, free-lancing at Publishers Weekly, writing, seeing movies,
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