Michele Weldon

Michele Weldon is an award-winning author, journalist and emerita faculty in journalism at Northwestern University who has published six nonfiction books, and has contributed chapters in seven other books. A senior leader with The OpEd Project since 2011, she has led Public Voices Fellowship initiatives at Northwestern, Stanford, Princeton and Brown universities, as well as the Ms. Foundation, the McCormick Foundation, Boone Family Foundation, Center for Global Policy Solutions and Urgent Fund Africa. She is the award-winning editorial director of Take The Lead, a global women’s leadership initiative. Her essays have appeared in hundreds of outlets globally.