Joan Walsh Biography

Joan Walsh is a CNN political commentator and a national affairs journalist for The Nation. What's the Matter With White People? is her first book. The Philadelphia Daily News dubbed Finding Our Way in the Next America "one of the greatest books of 2012—and even more important now." It was hailed by author Anne Lamott as "a great and fascinating book on America since the upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s." Walsh was Salon's first news editor and editor in chief for six years. She has been on several national shows, including Real Time with Bill Maher and Now on PBS, and is frequent on CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper and Out Front with Erin Burnett. She worked as a consultant on education and poverty problems for community groups and charities such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation before joining Salon. She's contributed to magazines like Vogue and The Nation, as well as newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is the co-author of Splash Hit: The Pacific Bell Park Story, a book about the construction of the iconic San Francisco Giants waterfront stadium. Walsh is based in New York City.

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