An award-winning journalist, specialising in education, technology and parenting.
I spend my days talking to education innovators, changemakers and teachers around the world. I grill policy wonks, finance experts, school leaders, tech gurus and parents to figure out how to build schools, neighborhoods and communities where kids want to learn, and are taught how to do so. I believe in a world in which every child, regardless of income, race or gender can figure out who they are and how they fit in the world.
I love moderating, hosting and speaking, to schools and students, but also to grown-ups in big banks, small start ups and everything in between.
I’ve done lots of things
I've done lots of things. I worked in Democratic politics, lived in Mexico and Argentina, went to grad school at Columbia’s School for International and Public Affairs and covered finance for 16 years: five at Institutional Investor magazine, one at the New York Post, ten at the New York Times. I had my own NYT column—The Insider—which mainly focused on hedge funds and private equity. I left The Times to join Quartz where I invented an array of interdisciplinary "obsessions" or beats. Those included the Science of Learning, the Art of Parenting, the Future of Schools, and Rewiring Childhood, a two-year project funded by a Dutch foundation to look at how the neuroscience of early childhood is being translated into policy around the world. My final obsession was Being Human, which was focused on how we build the things we need to not hate each other so much.
Learnit x Jenny Anderson Podcast
The Learnit podcast showcases global learning leaders re-imagining what students need to know, how they will learn it and the technology they are using to get there. We look at school leaders, tech entrepreneurs, and learning engineers who are closing equity gaps, accelerating academic learning and instilling in every learner the drive and skills to learn and thrive.
