Jenny Anderson

JENNY ANDERSON is an award-winning journalist, author and speaker who spent over a decade on staff at The New York Times before pioneering coverage on the science of learning and the future of schools at Quartz. She is the author of the popular How to Be Brave Substack, and co-author with Rebecca Winthrop of The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better (Crown, 2025) which demystifies student engagement and helps parents and educators better understand how to motivate teens. Jenny’s launched podcasts, newsletters and thought leadership around technology, parenting and learning. She is a senior fellow at the Center for Teen Flourishing, a nonprofit in Boston and the co-host of Ask the Kids, a podcast in partnership with Transcend Education. She frequently speaks in schools to teachers, parents and students, as well as to parents in finance groups, management consulting firms and tech companies. Jenny has keynoted or moderated on the main stage of events ranging from SXSW to ASU GSV and Davos. She lives in London with her husband and two teen daughters and continues to contribute to outlets including the New York Times, The Atlantic and the WSJ, among other publications. In 2008 she won a Gerald Loeb award for her coverage of Merrill Lynch leading up to the financial crisis. Her first book, It's Not You, It's the Dishes (Random House, 2010) explored marriage and behavioral economics. It won a Books for a Better Life award in 2011.