Gennie Gorback is an early childhood educator and President of the California Kindergarten Association. As a teenager, she joined Teen People magazine's Trendspotter club, and was featured not once, but twice, in Teen People! The first time, Gennie and her college friend Dan pranked Teen People—they weren’t actually a couple when they wrote a fake love note for publication in the magazine. As Gennie told me, she really just wanted to be in Teen People, the magazine that she read and enjoyed. They figured a cooked-up love story would do the trick. And it kind of did. Not only did they end up in Teen People…they fell in love.

Today, Gennie and Dan Gorback are the parents of two little ones. Gennie spoke with me in the summer of 2021, and began by walking me through the cover of the April 2004 issue of Teen People—the first of two appearances Gennie and and her husband made in Teen People magazine. You can find the matching pictures Gennie shared with me on my Twitter and Instagram, [at] TeenPeoplePod.

Notes:

Gennie is very active on social media! Find her on Twitter [at] GennieGorback. She shares the picture books she and her daughters read each day on Instagram, [at] myfavoritebooksforkids. Her website is www.genniegorback.com.

In Canada, February 20-26, 2022, is Freedom to Read Week! Find out more here: www.freedomtoread.ca.

Music:

'The Cradle of Your Soul' by lemonmusicstudio on Pixabay'Cinematic Ambient Emotional (Main)' by ZakharValaha on Pixabay'Indie Folk Acoustic' by Coma-Media on Pixabay

Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.