Green was born in 1927 to a Jewish family in Los Angeles. She moved to New York City to work in advertising after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a copywriter at
Seventeen and then worked at
LC Gumbinner Agency. Green started her career with the
Doyle Dane Bernbach agency In 1969, she started her own firm, Green Dolmatch, which became Paula Green Advertising, An early
breast cancer awareness ad campaign devised by Green for the
American Cancer Society is credited with saving dozens of lives. ==References==