So, you want to write an op-ed? Join Susan Ellingwood, associate vice president of public affairs at Columbia and a former journalist with 25 years of experience, including 13 as an editor on The New York Times opinion section, and Teresa Tritch, Owner and Editor of the Boulevard Sentinel, as they guide you through the ins and outs of writing to persuade.
About the speakers:
Susan Ellingwood is the associate vice president of public affairs at Columbia University, where she is the editorial director of the university’s home page, news outlet, and social media channels. She overseas a social media director and a team of videographers and public affairs officers who liaise with communications staff at three undergraduate schools and 14 graduate and professional schools.
Prior to joining Columbia in 2019, she spent more than 25 years in journalism, most recently at The New York Times on the Books desk for three years, and in Op-Ed and Opinion for 15 years, where she was a founding editor of Room for Debate, The Conversation, and On Campus. Susan has also worked at the Committee to Protect Journalists, The Wall Street Journal, Brill's Content, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. She holds a BA in Russian and international studies from Dickinson College and did her graduate work at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. She is the editor of two books (What We Saw and America At War) and a producer of the Times-HBO documentary, Last Letters Home.
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Following 13 years as a Member of the Editorial Board of the New York Times, Teresa Tritch developed an intensive opinion writing workshop for faculty at Yale University that she has since expanded to other institutions. Tritch's awards include sharing in the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2018 and receiving the Beth Shulman Fellow Award of the National Employment Law Project in 2017. In 2005 and again in 2013, she was awarded the New York Times' Publisher's Award for General Excellence.
