Liz Funk

Liz Funk is the author of Supergirls Speak Out, a non-fiction look at how the modern “ideal girl” in high school and college doesn’t pretend to be ditzy or bad at math—she’s a high-achieving, well-spoken, charming young woman who earns excellent grades, plays sports, and takes on leadership roles. While it’s great that it’s finally socially advantageous for girls to be strong and smart, many young women feel there is pressure to make it look as though they are effortlessly perfect and that they excel at everything they attempt. In Supergirls Speak Out Funk argues that young women need to develop a sense of intrinsic worth—that young women need to feel they have value outside of what they look like, what they’ve accomplished, and how others perceive them. From there, young women can have a positive relationship with their ambition and with themselves.

Funk has written for USA Today, Newsday, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, AOL.com, The Albany Times Union, and CosmoGIRL!. She has spoken at Cornell University, Brown University, Duke University, Boston College, Boston University, Emerson College, NYU, the University of Virginia, the University of Iowa, Miami University of Ohio, Texas Christian University, Indiana University, and Northern Arizona University, among dozens of other colleges.

She lives in New York City, where she works on marketing and business development strategy with startups.