Ina Hillebrandt

Bio of Ina Hillebrandt, Author, Speaker, Writing Coach, Publisher Born and raised in Philadelphia, Ina and her late brother Conrad spent half their “kidhood” living in Los Angeles, after their parents’ divorce. Bi-coastal living wasn’t half bad, they decided; Burma Shave signs on Route 66 alone were a treat. At age 21, Ina graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (an anthropology major), and then ran away from both sets of parents to attend graduate school in New Orleans, at Tulane. She married in the French Quarter, and soon moved to Manhattan with husband Barry, a lawyer, and Rapscallion P. Cat. At J. Walter Thompson in New York City, Ina became a qualitative researcher, doing scads of focus groups.