Marisa Fox

Marisa Fox, Writer/Director/Producer An award-winning journalist, Fox has reported on 9/11, opioid addiction and sexual surrogates, and has written and edited cover and feature stories for The New York Times, InStyle, Chicago Tribune, New York, Elle, O, Cosmo, Redbook and Harper’s Bazaar. Her political editorials and features on Holocaust, sexual violence, arts & culture, and women’s issues for Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz have been syndicated in The International New York Times and The Forward. She has produced news, interview shows and special programming for Vh1, FX, HBO & PBS, and her campaigns on infertility and domestic violence for Hearst Digital were award nominated by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Her graduate publication, Arts Chicago, won a National Journalism Society Award. She holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Science from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a Bachelor’s of Arts in French Language & Literature. "My Underground Mother," her in-production documentary about her search for her mother's hidden past, has already led to social impact initiatives. In 2016, she unveiled a monument in Trutnov, Czech Republic honoring the 5,000 Jewish young women who were trafficked to the area's 11 under-the-radar Nazi women's camps during WWII, curated a digital exhibit with the Shoah Foundation highlighting women's slave labor testimonies, and has spoken about her search for Holocaust HerStory and gender and genocide to groups ranging from the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education at Brookdale Community College, the Center for Jewish History in NYC, Bronx Science's Holocaust and Genocide scholarship program to a battered women's shelter in Israel. She has on-air and on-camera experience (NBC, CNN, Vh1, XM Radio). She has been awarded grants from the Claims Conference, NY Women in Film & TV, the Remembrance & Future Foundation and is being honored this fall at CUNY.