Linda Villarosa

Linda Villarosa is a journalist, author, editor, novelist and educator. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, where she covers race, inequality and health, and a former executive editor at Essence Magazine. Her 2018 cover story, "Why America's Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis," was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Her 2017 article, "America's Hidden HIV Epidemic," won a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists' Award for Excellence in Journalism. That organization inducted me into its Hall of Fame in 2020. Her essay on medical myths was included in the New York Times's Pulitzer-Prize-winning 1619 Project in August 2019 and was published in the 1619 Project Book, which came out in November 2021. She has covered the toll COVID-19 has taken on black communities in America and the environmental justice movement in Philadelphia in 2020 and wrote about life expectancy in Chicago in 2021. 

She is a graduate of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she is a journalist in residence. She also teaches journalism, writing, and Black Studies at the City College of New York. Her latest book, “Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation,” was published in June 2022 and was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

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