Early Life
Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York on April 13, 1957 to George, an ophthalmologist, and Dorothy (née Bock) Goodman. She was raised in a Jewish household (her maternal grandfather was an Orthodox Rabbi). She graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1975, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1984 with a degree in anthropology. Goodman spent a year studying at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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