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Feb 7, 2014 · The Lives column on Feb. 9, about Lynn Harris’s experience as a Tonya Harding look-alike, referred incorrectly to Somerville, Mass. That is where Harris lived after college; it was not her hometown.
Dec 12, 2017 · Tonya Harding shows her skate to the judges after interrupting her free skating program at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Hamar, Norway. ... Lynn Harris is an award-winning journalist, author of ...
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- Breakup Girl
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- Early/Personal Life
In early 2016,Harris founded GOLD Comedy, a mission-driven for-profit that provides women and nonbinary folks with comedy (and life) skills. An Indiegogo campaign for a pilot series was 173% funded in 72 hours. Between September 2016 and March 2017, GOLD Comedy ran a sold-out pilot workshop series for teen girls. GOLD Comedy has been featured in nu...
Harris has been a contributing writer for Salon.com and a contributing editor at Glamour Magazine. Her freelance journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Nerve.com, NPR.org, and The Washington Post. She wrote the “Rabbi’s Wife” column for the former Nextbook.org. She is also the dating advice columnist for MSN.com. Harris’ writing...
Harris is the co-creator, with Chris Kalb, of Breakup Girl, a character that debuted in her 1996 book He Loved Me, He Loves Me Not: A Guide to Fudge, Fury, Free Time, and Life Beyond the Breakup. (Avon) which she wrote and Chris Kalb illustrated. The character expanded into an online presence in 1997. BreakupGirl.net includes an advice column and c...
Harris began her position as Communications Strategist with Breakthrough in March 2011. Breakthrough describes its mission as "a global human rights organization that uses the power of media, pop culture, and community mobilization to inspire people to take bold action for dignity, equality, and justice." It is based in India and the United States,...
A former stand-up comic, Harris co-wrote and co-starred with Betsy Fast in the Off-Off Broadway production of "Lynn Harris on Ice." Directed by Jim Gaylord, the production was promoted as featuring "cautionary campfire tales about snow sports, skating scandals, dotcom meltdowns, fellas with cold feet, and parents numb with worry." Harris also perfo...
Harris was born in 1969 in Lexington, MA. Her parents are the American linguist James W. Harris(1932- ) and the late Florence W. Harris (1937-2020). She is an only child. She attended the Winsor School in Boston and graduated from Yale University in 1990. Harris married Rabbi David Adelson,currently the dean of the New York City campus of Hebrew Un...
Lynn Harris is an award-winning writer, founder, creative strategist, and multihyphenate. ... I am also a former Tonya Harding lookalike, which is a long story.
Dec 6, 2017 · The Impersonator: Lynn Harris, former preeminent Tonya Harding impersonator seen on the Ricki Lake show, current women’s advocate, and founder of Gold Comedy.Lynn came into our lives via ...
Dec 7, 2017 · Fact: LaVona Golden had a pet bird. Allison Janney plays Harding’s mother, LaVona Golden, in I, Tonya, and appears throughout the film with a parakeet perched on her shoulder, making for some of ...
Dec 7, 2017 · The Impersonator: Lynn Harris, former preeminent Tonya Harding impersonator seen on the Ricki Lake show, current women’s advocate, and founder of Gold Comedy. Lynn came into our lives via ...
