Our Leadership Team

The Steering Committee (SC) is composed of volunteers who coordinate events and meetings, update the Web site and zine, and establish list guidelines.

Treasurer, Lead List Administrator

Madeline Ostrander moved to Seattle in late 2003, joined Writergrrls in 2004, and signed up as Lead List Manager and then Treasurer in 2007. Madeline has been a writer, activist, and researcher on environmental policy for more than a decade. In 2007, she joined the staff of YES! Magazine, where she works to develop news coverage on solutions to such tough issues as climate change and social justice. In her (shrinking) spare time, Madeline writes literary journalism and place-based nonfiction essays.

If Madeline Were a Car, She'd Be: A bicycle, actually.
Favorite "Get Out of a Bad Mood" Song: "Passionate Kisses" by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Little known fact: I do a decent rendition of some Cyndi Lauper songs at karaoke.
Guilty Pleasures: Watching bad reality TV, like America's Next Top Model; eating popcorn (sometimes both simultaneously).
Hobbies: Playing in a folk band.

E-mail Madeline Ostrander, Treasurer and Lead List Administrator

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Volunteer Coordinator

Seattle Writergrrls' former Zine Facilitating Editor, Stephanie Shenk, stopped through New Orleans and San Francisco before landing here in Seattle. Her career to date includes a diverse range of editorial work, including interning at a literary society, writing for Gambit Weekly, filling the role of assistant editor for a business directory publisher, and doing various levels of editing work at Microsoft.

Formerly on the Zine team, as Volunteer Coordinator, Stephanie continures to bring Seattle Writergrrls a zest for creativity and the determined leadership that will surely drive it to new heights in 2008.

Favorite writing book: Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Decade you should have lived, or would love to live again: 1960s, so I could be a hippie poet kicking up my barefoot heels in San Francisco.
Best year of your life: Oh, I've had a few, probably some in my childhood that I can't remember. The ones I can recall are Spring of 1994 in Italy with my college, Summer of 1999 eating fancy and writing for papers in New Orleans, and Spring of 2002, rediscovering love and life in Seattle.
Favorite projects/hobbies: Wearing/acquiring outrageously cute clothing ;), exploring alternative publications (like print and Web zines), figuring out how to live a life of integrity.
Pleasures (without the "guilt" or "sin"): Fountain cokes, blo-pops, movie popcorn, sleeping on the couch, compulsive and long cell phone calls to my mother and my best friend Melanie in Boston.

E-mail Stephanie Shenk, Volunteer Coordinator.

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