About Us

Virginia Cornue, PhD, is founder and CEO of CornueCopia, LLC, the mom organization of Vaboomerviosks.com and vaboomer.com. She is a vaboomer many times over. 364 days short of being an official Boomer, she has always identified with the Boomer Generation. She’s a long time civil rights and women’s rights activist—starting in her high school years. She’s passionate about the environment and applies her childhood learning—make it do, make it over and make it last to her life today as much as possible. Virginia headed NOW-NYC during the ERA Extension Drive and organized NYC for the 1978 ERA March and Rally to Washington. She was co-founder and founding director of The NYC-Women’s Funding Coalition and Executive Director of Newark (NJ) Emergency Services for Families prior to beginning a doctoral program at Rutgers University in 1989. She earned her PhD for her cultural anthropology research on social change in post-Mao China studying gender redefinitions in the new market era, and new women’s organizations: Re-Organizing Women: Gender, Non-government Organizations and Contemporary Change in China. Her undergraduate degree is in theatre, BFA from UNC-Ch, as one of the first four-year on-campus liberal arts women students. She holds an ABMA in Organizational Development from the New School for Social Research in NYC.

Virginia is the author of many scholarly articles and a frequent guest lecturer on contemporary China and other topics. She is the author of The Dragon’s Daughters Return (www.thimbleberrypress.com 2007).

Actor, activist, feminist, late life-mom, creator, consultant, tree-hugger, and writer, her personal creative goal is to author 60 books in her second 60. Sixty Tips for a Sensational Second Sixty will be numero 2!

Nancy Mehegan, is Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations of CornueCopia, LLC and vaboomer.com’s secret illustrator. She is the tech brains of vaboomerviosks.com. An author in her own right, Nancy has worked at the United Nations in the Centre Against Apartheid and AT&T. She holds degrees in Modern Languages and Computer Science.

Nancy is the author of "Who Needs a Broker? : A Guide to DRIPS" and "Eighth Mountain", a work of science fiction for the new millennium. her poetry has been published in London, England and various U.S. publications.

She consults with many companies assisting them with internet marketing and PR, including Thimbleberry Press. Nancy is in tune with nature and goes regularly to commune with trees at the Delaware Water Gap. She is a friend with the coyotes and bobcats (yes there are some!) who live in northern NJ.