Sonia Robbins:  

CLASS OF 1960
Langhorne, PA
West haven, CT
Rosemont, PA
West haven, CT
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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