Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer
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Esther Wojcicki
Esther Wojcicki, known as “The Godmother of Silicon Valley,” is an internationally acclaimed journalist, award-winning educator and pioneer in the integration of technology into the classroom.
Joan Didion
Writer of in five novels and five screenplays, and in thirteen books of nonfiction that sprawl across the genre, from personal essays and memoir, to criticism and political reportage, and to hybrids of these that have stretched our cultural understanding of what nonfiction can be.
Aimee Phan
Aimee Phan’s first book, We Should Never Meet: Stories (2004), was named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Prize in fiction, as well as a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
American essayist and multimedia artist.
Meg Greenfield
American journalist
Dr Deborah Paredez
Co-founder of CantoMundo, the US’s first organization of its kind to specifically cater to Latinx poets
Joy Ladin
Joy Ladin’s return to Yeshiva University as a woman after receiving tenure as a man made her the first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution. Her memoir of gender transition, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders, was a finalist for a 2012 National Jewish Book Award, and winner of a Forward Fives award.
Courtney Angela Brkic
Courtney Angela Brkic is the author of Stillness: and Other Stories and The Stone Fields, and has worked as a creative writing teacher, a translator and as a forensic archeologist in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Veronica Chambers
Prolific author best known for her critically acclaimed memoir, Mama’s Girl, which has been course adopted by hundreds of high schools and colleges throughout the U.S.