She worked for several ad companies, gaining rights for maternity leave as well as career advancement regardless of her gender, while running strategic planning and market research campaigns.
[2] Feigin was born in Germany in 1937 to a Jewish father, Eric Sommer, and Lutheran mother, Charlotte, during the rise of the Nazi movement.
[2] In July 1940, at the age of two, Feigin and her family escaped from the country, at first via Italy, but then traveling by rail over Europe and Asia towards Japan.
She also worked on the early National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) marketing to lesson deaths from teenage drunk driving.
The memoir, My American Dream: A Journey from Fascism to Freedom, was self-published in 2021[4] and rereleased in 2024, and contains the full writings of her father's journal.