Jenny Anderson

Jenny Anderson is an award-winning journalist, author and speaker focused on the intersection of learning, parenting and technology. She is the 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 and motivate young people. She spent 15 years covering finance, including a decade on staff at the New York Times. In 2008 she won a Gerald Loeb award for her coverage of Merrill Lynch leading up to the financial crisis. In 2015 she joined Quartz and created four interdisciplinary beats including the science of learning, the future of schools and the neuroscience of infants. She launched the Learnit podcast in 2020 alongside a newsletter about innovations in learning, which reached 80,000 global education leaders. She was a Learning Sciences Exchange fellow at the New America Foundation and writes regularly for publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic and TIME. Her first book, It's Not You, It's the Dishes (Random House, 2010) was about marriage and behavioral economics. Jenny has appeared on stage or on panels at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Brookings Institution, Teach for All, SXSW EDU and ASUGSV, ONE and Learnit, among others. She speaks to schools, nonprofits and finance companies about how to build agency in learning and life.