I grew up in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana and graduated from Yale University in 2002.
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I cover technology, innovation, sustainability and social entrepreneurship as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. In 2005, when I was 24, the Village Voice did the huge favor of nominating me for a Pulitzer Prize for the feature series and column Generation Debt, work which led to a book published by Riverhead in 2006. Generation Debt drew national media attention and passionate online debate with its argument that young people are facing unique and unprecedented economic challenges.
As a national figure representing my generation, I’ve been in several documentaries including the “Generation Next” series on PBS and Default: The Student Loan Documentary; appeared on media outlets including CNN’s Larry King Live, ABC’s The View and NPR’s All Things Considered; been featured as a “Yahoo! Finance Expert”; and submitted testimony to Congressional committees and state legislatures about student debt and college affordability.
I’ve written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York magazine, Slate, Salon, the American Prospect, and the Nation. I contributed an essay, “Mutual Aid Revisited,” about my experiences with Hurricane Katrina and the power of community, to the anthology Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age (Tarcher, 2008).
With a growing awareness that we’re living in a time of profound change, I feel blessed to be engaged in this work of envisioning the future, connecting with others who are excited about change, and telling stories about the possibilities. I speak across the country, I blog at Fastcompany.com, the Huffington Post, and anyakamenetz.blogspot.com, and–I Tweet, yes I do, at Anya1anya. I live in Brooklyn with my husband & cat.
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