Marcie Bianco, PhD, is an associate editor at the Stanford Social Innovation Review, where she leads the multimedia DEI initiative and oversees the Books, Field Reports, and Last Look sections of the print magazine. She was formerly the Editorial & Communications Manager at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, where she served as editor-in-chief of the monthly newsletter, Gender News, and the annual print publication, upRising, in addition to being the founder of the Clayman Institute Feminist Journalism Writing Fellowship.
Bianco is a freelance writer and current columnist at the Women’s Media Center. Her writing can be found online at NBC, Pacific Standard, Quartz, Rolling Stone, Salon, Vox, and Vanity Fair, among other outlets. She also freelances for academic entities like the Stanford Humanities Center and Stanford Live. Bianco writes, lectures, and makes media appearances about ethics, from feminism to race relations. Her current writing projects include an autofiction about academic affairs and a manifesto on feminist accountability as freedom.
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