Speakers

Jelani Cobb

Dean & Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School

Jelani Cobb joined the Columbia Journalism School faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022.

He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015.

He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film Whose Vote Counts? and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018.

He has also been a political analyst for MSNBC since 2019.

Dr. Cobb was educated at Jamaica High School in Queens, NY, Howard University, where he earned a B.A. in English, and Rutgers University, where he completed his MA and doctorate in American History in 2003.