About the Author
Rebecca Blumenstein spent 22 years at THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, rising to Deputy Editor-in-Chief, before joining THE NEW YORK TIMES in 2017 as Deputy Managing Editor. She served as deputy editor, Publisher’s Office, from February 2021 to May 2022, working closely with NEW YORK TIMES Publisher A.G. Sulzberger to support the paper’s rapidly growing journalism operations. In 2023, she moved to NBC, where she is President, Editorial, of NBC News. She was named chair of the board of the Columbia Journalism Review in August 2022, and also serves on the board of the Wallace House/Center for Journalists at The University of Michigan and as a final judge of the Gerald Loeb Awards. She led the team that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and received the New York Newswomen’s Award in 1993, the Gerald Loeb Award in 2003, and was named to the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship for 2009. More information is available here:
https://www.nbcuniversal.com/leadership/rebecca-blumenstein.
Diana Kapp is a journalist who writes frequently about the intersection of women and modern culture, and has traveled in Afghanistan to report on the education of girls in the country’s rural northern provinces. Her longform pieces have been published in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, ELLE, MORE, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, and MARIE CLAIRE, among other publications. She is the author of two YA books profiling female changemakers, GIRLS WHO RUN THE WORLD and GIRLS WHO GREEN THE WORLD. More information is available here:
https://dianakapp.com/