Stephanie Nolen is a journalist, author and public speaker.
She is the global health reporter for The New York Times. A veteran foreign correspondent who has reported from more than 80 countries around the world, she is an eight-time winner of Canada’s National Newspaper Award and a seven-time winner of the Amnesty International Media Award for her coverage. She is the author of 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa, which won the PEN Courage Prize, and of Shakespeare’s Face and Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race. She served as bureau chief for Canada’s Globe and Mail in South Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and she has a passion for building innovative, immersive digital storytelling projects. Stephanie is an experienced public speaker with a focus on public health, gender equity and social inclusion. She is the 2020-21 Atkinson Fellow on Public Policy, writing about the Covid-19 pandemic and inequality.
Photo by Finbarr O’Reilly, Dakkar, Senegal, 2013.