Education
Brandeis University.
Brandeis University.
She earned a bachelor"s degree from Brandeis University in English and American literature, and worked for the publishing company Bernard Geis Associates as their director of publicity and later their vice president She also wrote a column for Ladies Home Journal called “The Working Woman," and was an editorial consultant for the television special You and Maine (as well as for the album and book associated with it) for which she earned an Emmy. She was a founding editor of Mississippi
Magazine, and a cofounder of Mississippi
Foundation for Women and the National Women"s Political Caucus. In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed.
One of the cards featured Pogrebin"s name and picture. In 2009 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which inspired her book How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who"s Sick.
She was featured (among others) in the 2013 documentary film Makers: Women Who Make America.
She is the grandmother of six.
She is a board member of (among other organizations) the Director’s Council of the Women in Religion Program at the Harvard Divinity School, the Mississippi Foundation for Education and Communication, and the Women"s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Brandeis University.
