Lauren Wolfe

Journalist, editor WMC Climate
Bio

Lauren Wolfe is an award-winning journalist who has written for publications from The Atlantic to The Guardian. She publishes a Substack called Chills, where she pulls back the curtain on her many years of international investigative reporting. She is also a contributing writer for Washington Monthly and an adjunct professor at NYU’s graduate school of journalism. She is the founding editor of WMC Climate. Previously, she was the director of WMC Women Under Siege and a columnist at Foreign Policy magazine. Before that, Wolfe was senior editor at the Committee to Protect Journalists, where she broke ground on the issue of journalists and sexualized violence. She has also worked at The New York Times covering September 11 and, later, Covid and the 2020 elections. She studied at Wesleyan University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Foreign Policy named her one of its “FP Twitterati 100,” and Action on Armed Violence listed her as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential Journalists Covering Armed Violence.” Find her at laurenmwolfe.com and on Twitter at @Wolfe321.