Helaina Hovitz
Helaina Hovitz is an editor, writer, and author of After 9/11. She has written for the New York Times, Teen Vogue, Glamour, Salon, Newsday, Forbes, Huffington Post, Reader's Digest, Women's Health, VICE, Newsweek, and many others. She is a native New Yorker who has always had the unreasonable notion that she can help change the world, and spends her daytime/weekday hours at Upworthy/GOOD. Visit her on Twitter, Facebook or at www.HelainaHovitz.com.
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We Asked People How They Fight Their Sunday Night Anxiety
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We Asked Young People Why They Still Smoke
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How Surviving 9/11 As a Kid Messed with My Head
Helaina Hovitz had just started seventh grade in Lower Manhattan when the planes struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
How Surviving 9/11 As a Kid Messed with My Head
Helaina Hovitz had just started seventh grade in Lower Manhattan when the planes struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.