Eleanor j bader biography

I'm an award-winning Brooklyn, NY based journalist who writes about domestic social issues, movements for social change, books and socially-conscious art.
Eleanor J. Bader [she/her] is a Brooklyn, NY-based freelance reporter who writes about books, art, education, housing and homelessness, the domestic right-wing.
Eleanor J. Bader is an award-winning journalist who writes about domestic social issues, movements for social change, books and art.

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Reporting from a
progressive perspective

About Me

I’m an award-winning Brooklyn, NY based journalist who writes about domestic social issues, movements for social change, books and socially-conscious art. My work is available on Truthout, The Progressive, Lilith Magazine and blog, the LA Review of Books, Fiction Writers Review and other online and print publications.

I grew up Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the decades after the city’s heyday, but left “the park city” after receiving a full-tuition scholarship to New York University where I majored in journalism and urban studies. While at NYU I had the good fortune to intern at the Metropolitan Council on Housing. It was there that I learned about community organizing. Legendary activists including Jane Benedict, Esther Rand, and Bess Stevenson were patient teachers and I was given an immersive crash-course in social justice activism. Post college, I used these lessons as a VISTA volunteer working with low-income New Yorkers. A Master’s degree in social work followed. Several years aft

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Multiculturalism and Mental Illness: An Interview With Mira T. Lee

Eleanor J. Bader interviews debut novelist Mira T. Lee about mental illness and multiculturalism in “Everything Here Is Beautiful.”

MIRA T. LEE did not grow up expecting, or even wanting, to be a writer. But then her mother died. Her short story “While We Waited,” a fictionalized chronicle of her mom’s final weeks, appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of The Southern Review. “It was my first published piece, and it was a story I wanted to tell,” Lee said. “After that, I started to get more familiar with storytelling and found that I enjoyed seeing things branch out further and further from my actual life. I loved being able to mold events into what I wanted them to be.”

Lee’s debut novel, Everything Here Is Beautiful, was chosen by the American Booksellers’ Association as a Top 10 Debut for Winter/Spring 2018. It’s a big book about big issues: sibling love and loyalty, mental illness, immigration, cultural displacement, marriage, childbearing and -rearing, interracial relationships, healthcare delivery, a

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Eleanor J. Bader Papers

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Collection

Collection ID: MG 107

Scope and Contents

The collection documents the family and personal life, education, career, and community involvement of Eleanor J. Bader. Materials in the collection include personal, religious, and professional certificates, awards, and licenses; business and civic papers; conference materials; correspondence; photos; and memorabilia from her life and travels. The bulk of the collection covers Bader's career including her work with the Delaware Curative Workshop, the National Easter Seal Society, and the Social Security Administration. An oral history with Eleanor Bader can be found on the Old Dominion University Libraries Digital Collections website.

Dates

circa 1922-2013, undated
Other: Date acquired: 04/10/2010

Creator

Extent

16.40 Linear Feet

Conditions Governing Access

Open to researchers without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from Special Collec