Tuesday, September 22, 12:15-2 p.m. ET (doors open at noon)
Bond 45, 221 W. 46th Street (between Broadway & 8th Avenue), NYC
$75 for members; $85 for non-members; $35 for active Scholars
Three-course lunch included
Registration will close Monday, September 21st at noon
WMG is proud to announce the third collaboration with Ms. magazine in our popular and esteemed series exploring the role of women’s leadership, voices, and stories in journalism. For this edition, a panel of distinguished journalists will discuss how women in media can steer and influence the national discourse. This year’s conversation will focus on the need for active and accessible feminist journalism today and in the future. Where is it being done? What are the most effective approaches? What are the challenges? Who’s listening, and who’s not listening?
Ms. and WMG are united in the mission to ensure that women’s voices are represented and prioritized as stories get reported and history and policy get made. Join us for this important conversation.
Meet the moderator:
Juju Chang is a multiple Emmy Award-winning journalist and co-anchor of ABC News Nightline. A trailblazer known for her powerful storytelling, she regularly contributes to Good Morning America, 20/20, and Hulu’s Impact X Nightline. Her in-depth reporting over four decades spans the COVID pandemic, mass shootings, climate migration, and gender-based violence across the globe. Juju's acclaimed coverage includes “Stop the Hate,” addressing anti-Asian violence, and “Murder in Atlanta,” which earned a Front Page Award. She has also received honors from GLAAD, Peabody, DuPont, and Murrow for her long-form pieces on immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, and mental health. Born in Seoul and raised in Sunnyvale, California, Juju began at ABC as a desk assistant and rose to national prominence. A Stanford alumna, she’s dedicated to numerous AANHPI community organizations, serves on the Board of 92NY, and co-founded the Korean American Community Foundation. She lives in New York with her husband, Neal Shapiro, and their three sons.
Meet the speakers:
Nina Burleigh is a journalist, bestselling author, documentary producer, and publisher of a Substack on politics called American Freakshow. A contributing editor at The New Republic and frequent contributor to The New York Times and New York Magazine, her journalism has been published widely, including in translation. She's the author of ten books (fiction and nonfiction) on an array of topics including Amanda Knox and the Trump women, which were reviewed or covered in The New York Times, BBC, MSNBC, and other media outlets. An adjunct professor at NYU's Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute, her work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly articles.
Swati Sharma is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Vox, the premier explanatory journalism brand at Vox Media. In this role, she oversees the site’s editorial vision and business strategy across platforms, which include a YouTube channel with nearly 13 million subscribers and a growing podcast network. Swati previously spent her career at legacy news organizations, including The Atlantic, where she oversaw digital coverage; The Washington Post, where she was the deputy general assignment editor working on breaking news during President Trump's first year in office; and The Boston Globe, where she coordinated live blog coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, which was cited in the paper’s Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.
Linda Villarosa is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a journalism professor at the City University of New York. Her book, Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America, was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Linda is writing a biography of the poet, playwright, and novelist Ntozake Shange, to be published by Storehouse Voices, a new division of Penguin Random House.
Paula Vogel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose plays include Mother Play (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), Indecent (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), and How I Learned to Drive (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award nomination, the Lortel Prize, OBIE Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Drama Critics Award for Best Play), among many others. Lifetime achievement awards include the American Theatre Hall of Fame Award, the OBIE Award, and the NY Drama Critics Circle Award. She founded and ran the MFA Playwriting program at Brown University and served as the O’Neill Chair of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama. She is the co-founder of Bards on the Bay at the Nancy Nordhoff Center, a new writers’ retreat for playwrights and theatrical composers set to open on Cape Cod in 2027.
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf is the executive director of Ms. partnerships and strategy. A lawyer, fierce advocate, and frequent writer on issues of gender, feminism, and politics in America, Jennifer has been dubbed the “architect of the U.S. campaign to squash the tampon tax” by Newsweek. She is the author of Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity, which was lauded by Gloria Steinem as “the beginning of liberation for us all,” and A Citizen’s Guide to Menopause Advocacy, together with Dr. Mary Claire Haver (featuring a foreword by Maria Shriver). Her forthcoming book, When in Menopause: A User’s Manual and Citizen’s Guide, will be published in fall 2026. She is also the executive director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center at NYU Law.
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