About Eleanor Traubman
Eleanor is a seasoned educator, community-builder, and arts and community journalist. An alumna of the Bank Street College of Education, she has spent the last 30-plus years working with young people and families in private and public schools, nonprofit education organizations, and museum settings including P.S. 29, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Brooklyn Children’s Museum. As a tutor, she currently works with families whose children attend P.S. 321, P.S. 29, Brooklyn New School, P.S. 58, P.S. 261, and Berkeley Carroll School.
Eleanor fosters young people’s literacy development by providing creative opportunities for them to read and write about topics and for purposes which hold personal meaning for them.
Eleanor is the editor and founder of My Local Heroes, a celebration of activists, artists, athletes and entrepreneurs from Brooklyn and beyond who are leading the way making lives go better with little fanfare and a lot of heart and smarts. The project was featured in News12, The Patch, and The Backpack Show Live. It also received a Covid-19 Heroes Award from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.
Eleanor is a founder of Creative Conversations, a NYC-based group for women writers and visual artists. She was listed as one of The Park Slope 100 for work as a community-builder vis-a-vis The Brooklyn Blogfest.
Originally hailing from the California Bay Area, Eleanor lives in Carroll Gardens with her husband, Michael Sorgatz, who is a painter and a printmaker.