Category: Press

April 12, 2026 Writopia Returns to the Sunset With Youth Writing Programs Read about how Shanille Martin and Alexia Nader have been re-establishing Writopia Lab Bay Area.  Read the full article here.

3/7/2025 Hart & Hustle A Cry to The Education System: New York’s Reading Mandate Could Be the Hope for Literacy Proficiency & Individuality The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Writopia Lab, a youth literacy development center that ignites a fire for writing, Rebecca Wallace-Segall has seen a dramatic change in reading habits during her…

3/7/2025 Hart & Hustle Why Writing is the Ultimate Leadership Skill with Rebecca Wallace-Segall

2/23/2025 NeoFeed Whose text is it: the student’s or the artificial intelligence’s? “Students, like the rest of us, have always had ways of plagiarizing,” Rebecca Wallace-Segall, founder and CEO of Writopia Lab in Manhattan — an organization that promotes creative writing, focusing on children, teenagers and young adults — told NeoFeed. “What’s new in this debate…

9/30/2024 The Forward How teens of all backgrounds can connect in a deeply polarized, post-Oct. 7 world Two Writopia teens bridge cultural and political divides.

05/7/2023 CUNY Graduate Center Rebecca Wallace-Segall featured in The Newsletter of the Program in Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (page 6)

3/6/2025 Kimball Union Magazine Student Spotlight: Teddy Lykouretzos ’25 “[Advanced Writing Seminar] was an amazing experience. A lot of us were sort of the one-off kids in our school communities. We were the token creative-writing nerds in our friend groups. So, it was nice being with other people who share that writing mindset and to…

May 6th, 2025 HFH HFH Partnerships Manager Tierra Gunther was recently recognized at Writopia Lab’s 2025 Gala, receiving an award for Excellence in Literacy, Leadership, and Programming—a celebration of HFH and Writopia Lab’s decade-long collaboration bringing creative writing and literacy enrichment to children at Saratoga Family Residence. “I am so grateful to have worked with such…

03/17/2023 Mommy Poppins Writopia Lab featured in Best Week-Long Summer Camps 2023

March 1st, 2026 Extra, Extra! The Joy and Impact of Newspaper Production at Camp Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Writopia Lab, Rebecca Wallace-Segall walks through how she and her team pull off a fun and productive camp newspaper at WriCampia, the writing non-profit’s two-week sleepaway camp.  Wallace-Segall stresses the importance of a co-created mission…