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Liz Colville

Senior Writer & Outreach

Liz joined findingDulcinea in December of 2006. She has worked at JackRabbit Sports, a specialty running store, the Kind Group, a marketing and branding firm, and at an e-commerce start-up. She has also worked as a freelance music critic for Pitchfork Media and the former Stylus magazine. She has a B.A. in English, with a concentration in creative writing, from Wesleyan University. For more about Liz read her blog, Lizzyville.

Favorite Web sites:
  New York Magazine
  BuzzFeed
  Flotrack

Most Recent Articles by Liz Colville

  • Happy Birthday, Jack Welch, Former CEO of General Electric
    Jack Welch was CEO of General Electric for 20 years, beginning his tenure in the midst of 1981’s tough economic conditions and leading the company to enormous growth. An author, husband and father of four, Welch, along with his wife, Suzy, is a leadership guru whose viewpoint is routinely requested by companies and business students.
  • What Is a Micronation?
    There are thousands of strange and unique micronations around the world whose founders stand up for their beliefs, regardless of whether anyone else does.
  • What's Happening to Writing Skills?
    With the advent of the writing portion of the SAT, schools have put more emphasis on writing skills. But are they actually being taught, and what happens when students reach college?
  • Motivating Students to Read
    The reading curriculum in the U.S. has been criticized for emphasizing a standard list of classics, and for catering too heavily to female readers. What are some practical solutions?
  • What Success Does for the Brain
    MIT researchers have shown that the brain appears to react more to success than failure, supporting previous evidence that we learn more from a positive outcome than a negative one.
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