1. Jodi Kantor was born on April 21,1975 and is an American journalist.
16 Facts About Jodi Kantor
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Jodi Kantor is a New York Times correspondent whose work has covered the workplace, technology, and gender.
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Jodi Kantor is a contributor to CBS This Morning and has appeared on Charlie Rose, The Daily Show and The Today Show.
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Jodi Kantor was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018.
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Jodi Kantor participated in the Dorot Fellowship in Israel from 1996 to 1997, where she studied Hebrew and worked with Israeli-Palestinian organizations in East Jerusalem, and later worked for a year as an Urban Fellow in Rudy Giulianis Mayor's Office of Operations.
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Later, Jodi Kantor attended Harvard Law School for one semester, taking a leave, to work in Washington, DC, at Slates office, where she later became the magazine's New York editor.
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Jodi Kantor is thought to be the youngest person to edit a section of the New York Times.
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In 2007, Jodi Kantor turned to covering politics for the Times, including the 2008 presidential campaign and Barack Obama's biography.
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Jodi Kantor broke the news of initial strain between Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
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Jodi Kantor has reported on the treatment of women on Wall Street and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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In 2016, Jodi Kantor co-authored "Refugees Welcome", spending 15 months chronicling how everyday Canadian citizens adopted tens of thousands of Syrian refugees.
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Jodi Kantor is the recipient of awards from PEN America, the Feminist Press and the Los Angeles Press Club.
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Jodi Kantor was selected by Crain's Magazine as one of "Forty Under Forty" promising New Yorkers, by the Hollywood Reporter as one of the most powerful women in entertainment, by ReCode as one of the most influential people in media or technology in 2017, and by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of that year.
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Jodi Kantor was one of three people from her Columbia class to have won a Pulitzer Prize, alongside journalist Harriet Ryan and composer Tom Kitt.
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Jodi Kantor is married to Ron Lieber, the "Your Money" columnist for The New York Times and author of The Opposite of Spoiled.
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Jodi Kantor is a member of a Reform synagogue in Brooklyn.