Zara Stone

Zara Stone is a journalist. (preferred pronouns: she/her), who reports on the intersection of technology, culture, and social justice. Her areas of specialty include women in STEM, cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery, appearance bias, and the prison industrial complex.

She’s the author of Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons (Prometheus Books, 2021) as well as the children's book, The Future Of Science Is Female: The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century, (Mango Publishing, 2020).

Stone’s reporting has appeared in OneZero, Marker, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, VICE, The Atlantic, The BBC, SKY News, KGO Radio, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Wired Magazine, OZY, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, and other places.

She has a master's in journalism from Columbia University Graduate school of Journalism, where she focused on the intersectional economy of beauty and plastic surgery. She has been awarded a Dow Jones News fellowship in New York, and an SRR Con fellow in Portland.

Sub-specialties:

Technology, business, innovation, and the intersection of culture.

Women in STEM, startups, women’s leadership, female entrepreneurship, and Silicon Valley.

Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery, appearance bias, lookism, and implicit bias.

Internet culture, influencers, and online trends.

Social justice, the incarceration complex, prison reform, rehabilitation programs, female prisoners, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, police training.

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