Ophira Edut
In 1992, at the age of nineteen, Ophira Edut helped launch HUES (Hear Us Emerging Sisters), a magazine that embraced diversity and depicted young women as strong, smart, stylish, and playful. IEdut launched HUES with her twin sister Tali and their friend Dyann Logwood as a way to portray women of all shapes and sizes and allow them to tell their stories. What began as a college project quickly grew into a national, multicultural women’s magazine. Edut sold HUES in 1997 and went on to work as an associate editor for Ms. magazine, eventually becoming an astrologer with her sister Tali, predicting horoscopes for Teen People. They have written horoscope columns for Elle, Refinery29, and numerous other publications. Edut is now COO of Mediarology, a content, media consulting, and design company. She is the editor of Body Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image & Identity and coauthor, with her sister, of several astrology guides.