Jia Angeli Carla Tolentino was born on 1988 and is an American writer and editor.
11 Facts About Jia Tolentino
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Jia Tolentino's writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork.
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Jia Tolentino attended an evangelical megachurch and a small Christian private school.
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Jia Tolentino started elementary school early and graduated from high school as her class salutatorian.
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In 2005, Jia Tolentino enrolled at the University of Virginia as a Jefferson Scholar, studying English, joining the Pi Beta Phi sorority, and participating in an a cappella group called The Virginia Belles.
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Jia Tolentino began writing for The Hairpin in 2013, hired by then-editor-in-chief Emma Carmichael.
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Jia Tolentino has garnered favorable attention for essays on topics such as race in publishing, marriage, abortion, and notions of female empowerment, as well as for her no-pulled-punches music criticism.
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In 2017, Jia Tolentino was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the media category.
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Jia Tolentino's 2021 reporting on the conservatorship of Britney Spears, co-authored with Ronan Farrow, attracted international attention, with the piece being described as "blistering" by Tyler Aquilina in Entertainment Weekly and as a "journalistic reference text on Britney Spears" by Dirk Peitz in Die Zeit.
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In January 2023, Jia Tolentino made a cameo in the HBO Max show Gossip Girl.
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Jia Tolentino met her husband, Andrew Daley, an architect, while they were students at UVA.