Rebecca Odes

Rebecca Odes (born September 11, 1969) She is childhood friends with Esther Drill; the two attended West Orange High School, where they both participated in the French club, Ski club and the Cauldron school newspaper. Odes attended and graduated from Vassar College.

Odes married Craig Kanarick, the co-founder of Razorfish, on October 27, 2001, at the Angel Orensanz Center. The two had met in 1996 when Odes took an interaction design course that Kanarick was teaching at New York University.

Career

Music career

At the end of her freshman year in Vassar College, Odes formed the band Love Child with two other students and was the band's bassist and vocalist. On February 20, 1996, Odes released her extended play, Me and My Big Mouth.

Writing career

As high school students, Odes and her childhood friend Esther Drill conceived the idea of curating their own magazine with alternative media after noticing that the teen magazines available to them did not properly address their concerns. Gurl.com was then created as Odes, Drill, and McDonald's Master's Thesis project. She, along with Drill and McDonald, were given the New York Magazine Award in 1997 for their work on the website.

Throughout the years of working on Gurl.com, Odes, Drill, and McDonald released three books based on the content of their website through a partnership with Scholastic. It was awarded the I.D. Magazine Award in the Graphics category in July 2000. The second book, The Looks Book: A Whole New Approach to Beauty, Body Image, and Style, was released on October 1, 2002. The final book, Where Do I Go from Here?: Getting a Life After High School, was released in 2004. Following her work on Gurl.com, Odes co-wrote the book From the Hips: A Comprehensive, Open-Minded, Uncensored, Totally Honest Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Becoming a Parent with Ceridwen Morris, with the book releasing on May 1, 2007.

In 2013, Odes founded Wifey.tv with Joey Soloway, an Internet-based platform for women.

In 2016, Odes became the executive producer of the film The Skinny. She was also listed in Forbes Forty Over 40 in the same year. In 2018, Odes co-founded CherryPicks, a review aggregator website for female and non-binary content, with Miranda Bailey.

Discography

Extended plays

Title Year Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications US Me and My Big Mouth 1996 Released: February 20, 1996 Label: Merge Records Formats: CD — "—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Singles

Title Year Peak chartpositions Sales Album US"Meltaway" 1994 — — "—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Publications

As author Year Title Publisher ISBN Notes 1999 Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL Pocket Books Co-author with Esther Drill and Heather McDonald; illustrator 2002 The Looks Book: A Whole New Approach to Beauty, Body Image, and Style Penguin Books Co-author with Esther Drill and Heather McDonald; illustrator 2004 Where Do I Go from Here?: Getting a Life After High School Penguin Books Co-author with Esther Drill and Heather McDonald; illustrator 2007 From the Hips: A Comprehensive, Open-Minded, Uncensored, Totally Honest Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Becoming a Parent Three Rivers Press Co-author with Ceridwen Morris; illustrator

As contributor

Year Title Publisher ISBN Notes 2013 Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah Workman Publishing Company "10 Commandments"; co-contributor with Sam Lipsyte