Jodi Kantor Biography

Jodi Kantor is a reporter for The New York Times and a best-selling author.

Ms. Kantor specializes in long-form, deeply reported stories. Her investigations into working conditions at Starbucks and Amazon prompted policy changes at both companies. The article she wrote about Harvard Business School’s attempt to change its climate for women provoked a national conversation about women in business schools. Ms. Kantor’s report on working mothers and breast-feeding inspired two readers to create the first free-standing lactation suites for nursing mothers, now available in airports and stadiums across the country.

In 2016, Ms. Kantor and Catrin Einhorn reported and wrote “Refugees Welcome,” a yearlong series about everyday Canadians adopting Syrian refugees, exploring the question: can regular citizens successfully intervene in one of the worst problems on earth?

For six years, Ms. Kantor wrote about Barack and Michelle Obama, delving into their ideas, biographies, family, marriage, faith and approach to the White House, and covering the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Ms. Kantor’s book "The Obamas," about their behind-the-scenes adjustment to the jobs of president and first lady, was published in 2012, with a new edition forthcoming in early 2017. Writing in the New York Review of Books, Ezra Klein said, “Jodi Kantor’s ‘The Obamas’ is among the very best books on this White House.”

Before becoming a reporter, Ms. Kantor was the New York editor of Slate magazine and The Times’s Arts & Leisure editor.

Ms. Kantor is a contributor to CBS This Morning. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Ron Lieber, and their two daughters.

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