About Lynne Margolis

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Pittsburgher-turned-Austinite Lynne Margolis worked as a writer and editor at several Pennsylvania newspapers before becoming a full-time freelancer for print, online and broadcast media including the Christian Science Monitor (which syndicated her work worldwide), RollingStone.com, Grammy.com, NPR, The Bluegrass Situation and magazines including Paste and American Songwriter. She has collected inductee oral histories for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum archives and was a contributing editor to The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen From A To E To Z. She also edits books, provides website and media consulting, and has written hundreds of artist bios.

Articles written by Lynne Margolis

Colin Pogge's Teachable Moments

You can’t take this Houston litigator out of the classroom

Colin Pogge still remembers the thrill of delivering his first opening statement. It was for a statewide high school mock trial competition.  His interest in law was not surprising; his father is a lawyer (and now city councilman) in Urbandale, Iowa, where Pogge grew up. But before following in his dad’s footsteps, he wound up following his mother’s—into a school classroom.  At a college career fair, he spotted a Teach for America booth and realized that committing two years to helping …

The Value of Heritage

Kari Konikowski Blackman’s family found its American dream; now she helps others in their search

As a child, Kari Konikowski Blackman’s father would instinctively drop to the ground if he heard a plane overhead. The habit stayed with him long after he debarked the SS Ernie Pyle in New York, too young at 4 to understand what “immigrant” meant, but glad to leave the ravages of war behind. Born in a German labor camp, George Jerzy Konikowski also had to leave behind a Polish homeland he didn’t even know.  Blackman’s dad always kept Poland in his heart, however, and though his …

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