Episode 10 - Ellen McGirt

Over the course of my life, I've crossed paths with a variety of amazing people and one of those is journalist Ellen McGirt . She is an award-winning business journalist specializing in long form profiles. Currently, she writes a daily column covering race, culture, and leadership for Fortune called raceAhead . Every day when it arrives in my inbox, I stop whatever I'm doing and immediately read it. During her time at Fast Company , she wrote a number of high profile cover stories about a variety of people including President Obama, Matt Damon, and Mark Zuckerberg. We discuss all of this, the important role teachers played in her life, and the cross-country storytelling trip she took in the months following September 11th. Sit down with us on Ellen McGirt's back porch on a beautiful spring day and find out why she writes.

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Episode 10 - Ellen McGirt is an episode from Why I Write by National Council of Teachers of English.

This episode is 38:51 long.

This episode was published on Mar 7, 2017.

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