Our Story
Her Girl Friday is dedicated to empowering journalists and nonfiction storytellers by creating opportunities for learning, networking, collaboration, and the production and showcasing of meaningful nonfiction projects in a variety of media. Our initiatives are open to anyone, but our focus is on centering those who identify as women including but not limited to cisgender, transgender, femme, gender non-conforming and non-binary people of any nationality, ethnicity, age, ability, or orientation.
Previous Events:
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Past presenters include:
• Amy O'Leary, New York Times reporter and former Deputy News Editor
• Annia Ciezadlo, Day of Honey Author and former Special Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic
• Jessica Devaney, Associate Producer for Budrus at JustVision
• Diana Diroy, MA in Media Studies and Film at New School
• Carolyn Ryan, Metro editor of The New York Times
• Katherine Lanpher, award-winning print and broadcast journalist and teacher at the Op-Ed project
• Evan Ratliff, founder of The Atavist
• Jessica Pressler, contributing editor to New York Magazine
• Dafna Linzer, senior reporter at ProPublica
• Habiba Nosheen, multimedia reporter, To Adopt a Child
• Pamela Yates, documentary filmmaker, Granito
• Roopa Vasudevan, MTV True Life Producer
• Ann Friedman, former executive editor of GOOD and co-founder of crowd-funded magazine TOMORROW
• Martina Castro, Managing editor of KALW News 91.7FM and co-founder and senior producer of Radio Ambulante
• Katy Newton, Stanford Knight Fellow, created Kon*Fab
• Aldona Watts, multimedia producer and creator of Land of Songs
• Mimi Chakarova, multimedia journalist and creator of The Price of S*x
• Lara Setrakian, Syria Deeply
• Lam Thuy Vo, Al Jazeera America
• Anaheed Alani, Rookie Magazine
• Maura Johnston, Maura Magazine
• Angeline Gragasin, Women of the Future
• Mina Kimes, Business, Columnist at ESPN The Magazine
• Irin Carmon, National Reporting & Politics at MSNBC
• Mary Pilon, Sports at the New York Times
• Nicole Tung, Photojournalist
• Megan McCloskey, Military coverage at ProPublica
• Nafeesa Syeed & Rahilla Zafar, Arab Women Rising
• Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian, Cannabis Wire
• Tanzina Vega, Off Color New York Times Video Series
• Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Call Me Kuchu
• Patricia Finneran, Brit Docs' Impact Field Guide & Toolkit
• Yamiche Alcindor, USA Today
• Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine
• Pearl Gabel, Multimedia Reporter
• Sarah Hoye, Al Jazeera America
• Juliet Linderman, The Associated Press
• Ursula Liang, Director/Producer
• Jihii Jolly, Multimedia Journalist
• Lynn True, Documentary Filmmaker
• Liz Nord, Documentary Filmmaker and Multiplatform Producer
• Talisa Chang, Her Girl Friday Co-Founder
Organizers:
Talisa Chang, Diana Diroy, Jihii Jolly, Juliet Linderman, Jackie Snow, Aldona Watts, Karen Zraick