Rochelle Lefkowitz
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Rochelle Lefkowitz is president and founder of Pro-Media Communications, a bicoastal public interest public relations firm.
, Frances Fox Piven and Linda Burnham.
In that same year, she founded Pro-Media Communications to help organizations, non-profits and individuals enact social change. Since its founding the organization has worked on a range of social issues, from the death penalty to poverty issues to gay rights.
Lefkowitz coined the term "Fuels from Heaven, Fuels from Hell," which was cited by Thomas Friedman
in his book Hot, Flat, and Crowded
. Lefkowitz is a featured blogger for the Huffington Post
Prior to the founding of Pro-Media Communications, she was a human services reporter covering the Massachusetts State House
. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Cornell University in Latin American studies and a master of arts degree in education from Boston University.
Overview
Lefkowitz co-edited the 1986 book "For Crying Out Loud: Women and Poverty in the United States" with Ann Withorn. Writers and activists that contributed to the book included Barbara EhrenreichBarbara Ehrenreich
-Early life:Ehrenreich was born Barbara Alexander to Isabelle Oxley and Ben Howes Alexander in Butte, Montana, which she describes as then being "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town."...
, Frances Fox Piven and Linda Burnham.
In that same year, she founded Pro-Media Communications to help organizations, non-profits and individuals enact social change. Since its founding the organization has worked on a range of social issues, from the death penalty to poverty issues to gay rights.
Lefkowitz coined the term "Fuels from Heaven, Fuels from Hell," which was cited by Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman
Thomas Lauren Friedman is an American journalist, columnist and author. He writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs including global trade, the Middle East, and environmental issues and has won the Pulitzer Prize three times.-Personal...
in his book Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America is a book by New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, proposing that the solutions to global warming and the best method to regain the United States' economic and political stature in the world is...
. Lefkowitz is a featured blogger for the Huffington Post
Prior to the founding of Pro-Media Communications, she was a human services reporter covering the Massachusetts State House
Massachusetts State House
The Massachusetts State House, also known as the Massachusetts Statehouse or the "New" State House, is the state capitol and house of government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is located in Boston in the neighborhood Beacon Hill...
. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Cornell University in Latin American studies and a master of arts degree in education from Boston University.