Cookie Lommel
American author and activist
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Cookie Lommel (born 1960) is an American author, biographer, film producer, and activist.
- Writer
- biographer
- film producer
- activist
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| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
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Early life
Cookie Lommel was born in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] She began her career in the entertainment industry in 1981.[2] Early on she worked as a journalist for Cashbox magazine and Radio & Records magazine.[3] She has also worked as an entertainment industry reporter at CNN[4] and as entertainment editor at Teen Magazine.[5]
Activism
In 2003, she was named the executive director of the Jewish Labor Committee's Western region.[1] Prior to this, in 1992 Lommel founded Operation Unity,[6] a non-profit organization that funded the travel of inner city minority students to live on an Israeli Kibbutz.[1]
Author
Lommel authored the 2001 book The History of Rap Music[7][8] and Black Filmmakers in 2002.[9] She is also the author of unauthorized biographies for Russell Simmons,[10] Arnold Schwarzenegger,[11] James Oglethorpe,[12] Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., Arthur Miller,[1] Robert Church,[13] Madame C.J. Walker,[14] Michelle Pfeiffer,[15] and Mary Church Terrell.[16]
Personal life
She was married to actor and film director Ulli Lommel between 1988 and 2004.[17]