{{Short description|American author and activist}} {{Infobox person | name = Cookie Lommel | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1960}} | birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | occupation = {{flatlist| * Writer * biographer * film producer * activist }} | spouse = {{marriage|Ulli Lommel|1988|2004|reason=divorce}} }} '''Cookie Lommel''' (born 1960) is an American author, biographer, film producer, and activist.
==Early life== Cookie Lommel was born in Cleveland, Ohio.<ref name=LAT /> She began her career in the entertainment industry in 1981.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox55unse_14|title=Cash Box|date=30 November 1991|publisher=Cash Box Pub. Co.|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Early on she worked as a journalist for ''Cashbox'' magazine and ''Radio & Records'' magazine.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ft6SOIW0l0C&pg=PA4|title=Robert Church|first=Cookie|last=Lommel|date=13 October 1995|publisher=Holloway House Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=9780870677892}}</ref> She has also worked as an entertainment industry reporter at CNN<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/archives/a-jewish-connection---in-her-soul-and-in/article_fcaa9c58-da7a-5e98-9e23-eee8e1d5a735.html|title=A Jewish connection - in her soul and in her jobs|first=CYNTHIA DETTELBACH|last=Editor|date=17 September 2004 |publisher=}}</ref> and as entertainment editor at ''Teen Magazine''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4laORCuvf9UC&pg=PA104|title=Russell Simmons|first1=Cookie|last1=Lommel|first2=Chuck|last2=D|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Infobase Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=9781438103518}}</ref>
==Activism== In 2003, she was named the executive director of the Jewish Labor Committee's Western region.<ref name=LAT /> Prior to this, in 1992 Lommel founded Operation Unity,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/operation_unity/|title=CNN - Teen-agers find new direction - Nov. 10, 1995|website=www.cnn.com}}</ref> a non-profit organization that funded the travel of inner city minority students to live on an Israeli Kibbutz.<ref name=LAT>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-mar-14-ca-tugend14-story.html|title=One-woman bridge|first=Tom|last=Tugend|date=14 March 2004|publisher=|via=LA Times}}</ref>
==Author== Lommel authored the 2001 book ''The History of Rap Music<ref>{{cite web |title=African-American Children's Books |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20001211/25180-african-american-children-s-books.html |publisher=}}</ref>''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kbE9uQLacRcC&pg=PA21|title=Sean Combs|first=Dale Evva|last=Gelfand|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Infobase Publishing|via=Google Books|isbn=9781438103525}}</ref> and ''Black Filmmakers'' in 2002.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZx2AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT361|title=Encyclopedia of African American Society|first=Gerald D.|last=Jaynes|date=1 February 2005|publisher=SAGE Publications|via=Google Books|isbn=9781452265414}}</ref> She is also the author of unauthorized biographies for Russell Simmons,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zPg7Cidoy0C&pg=PP47|title=The Hip-Hop Scene: The Stars, the Fans, the Music|first1=Ann Graham|last1=Gaines|first2=Reggie|last2=Majors|date=1 July 2009|publisher=Enslow Publishing, LLC|via=Google Books|isbn=9780766033962}}</ref> Arnold Schwarzenegger,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A_1Oalp0qQEC&pg=PA162|title=Proč jsou úspěšní lidé úspěšní|first=Rainer|last=Zitelmann|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Grada Publishing a.s.|via=Google Books|isbn=9788024741871}}</ref> James Oglethorpe,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8rA1kYgFx-wC&pg=PA43|title=Heroes & Helpers Adventure Diaries-#6 Hannah, the Humanitarian Aid Worker!|first=Carole|last=Marsh|date=1 November 2003|publisher=Gallopade International|via=Google Books|isbn=9780635011534}}</ref> Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., Arthur Miller,<ref name=LAT /> Robert Church,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ZMt670GeGoC&pg=PA168|title=Fight On!: Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration|first1=Dennis B.|last1=Fradin|first2=Judith Bloom|last2=Fradin|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0618133499}}</ref> Madame C.J. Walker,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A5Y5Kk12xkkC&pg=PA103|title=Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur and Millionaire|first=Darlene R.|last=Stille|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Capstone|via=Google Books|isbn=9780756518837}}</ref> Michelle Pfeiffer,<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHrEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT23 |title = Wie würde Johnny Depp präsentieren?: Was Sie von Schauspielern für Ihren Vortrag lernen können|isbn = 9783864146237|last1 = Lüder|first1 = Peter|date = 2014-02-14| publisher=Redline Wirtschaft }}</ref> and Mary Church Terrell.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBXl8aueRisC&pg=PA126|title=Study Guide for Let Nobody Turn Us Around|first1=Karen G.|last1=Williams|first2=Andrea|last2=Queeley|date=13 October 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442200135|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Personal life== She was married to actor and film director Ulli Lommel between 1988 and 2004.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMpZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT260|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2017|first=Harris M. Lentz|last=III|date=30 April 2018|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476633183|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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