Award-winning journalist Lauren Wolfe asks a simple question that demands serious thought.
Lauren Wolfe
About Lauren Wolfe
Lauren Wolfe is an award-winning journalist who has written for publications from The Guardian to The Atlantic. She serves on the advisory committee of the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict.
Previously, she was the senior editor of the Committee to Protect Journalists, where she focused on journalists and sexualized violence. Her CPJ report “The Silencing Crime”—for which she interviewed more than 50 journalists around the world—broke ground in documenting the issue. Before that, Wolfe spent three years reporting on September 11th for two New York Times books. She studied at Wesleyan University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and is the recipient of the 2012 Frank Ochberg Award for Media and Trauma Study and four awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. She also blogs at laurenmwolfe.com and can be found on Twitter at @Wolfe321.