About Wanda Urbanska
Wanda Urbanska is a nationally known author and expert on simplicity and has helped to identify and define one of the top trends of our time—the quest for simplicity in our overbooked, environmentally challenged, high-tech era.
Co-author with Frank Levering of Simple Living: One Couple’s Search for a Better Life (Viking/Penguin: 1992), and author or co-author of five books including Simple Living (1992), Moving to a Small Town (Simon & Schuster: 1996), Christmas on Jane Street (William Morrow & Co.: 1998), and Nothing’s Too Small To Make A Difference (2004). She hosted the PBS primetime special Escape from Affluenza: Living Better on Less and has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today show, CBS This Morning and many more. She was heard on NPR’s All Things Considered. Her series, SIMPLE LIVING WITH WANDA URBANSKA, is currently airing on PBS stations nationwide.
A graduate of Harvard University, Urbanska has published in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and in such magazines as Vogue, Glamour, Shape, New Woman, McCall’s, the Rotarian and others. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the London Daily Telegraph, and many others.
Wanda Urbanska is active in community life in her hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina, where she is past chairman of the board of the Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce. A member of the Mount Airy Rotary Club, a past board member of the United Fund of Greater Mount Airy, she has graduated from several local and regional leadership training programs. In August 2005, she and Levering were honored with the prestigious annual “Community Awareness Day” award for her leadership in media as host and producer of the SIMPLE LIVING WITH WANDA URBANSKA. Sharon Avent, CEO of SMEAD manufacturing received this award at the same event. The City of Mount Airy named August 20 “Simple Living Day” in recognition of the couple’s achievements.
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