Jenny Anderson

Jenny Anderson is an award-winning journalist, author and speaker focused on the intersection of learning, parenting and technology. She is the author of the popular How to Be Brave Substack, and co-author with Rebecca Winthrop of The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better (Crown, 2025) which demystifies student engagement and helps parents and educators better understand and motivate teen learners. She spent 15 years covering finance, including a decade on staff at the New York Times. In 2008 she won a Gerald Loeb award for her coverage of Merrill Lynch leading up to the financial crisis. In 2015 she left the Times to join Quartz where she pioneered interdisciplinary beats about the science of learning, the future of schools and the neuroscience of infants. She launched the Learnit podcast in 2020 alongside a newsletter about innovations in learning, which reached 80,000 global education leaders. She was a Learning Sciences Exchange fellow at the New America Foundation and writes regularly for publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. Her first book, It's Not You, It's the Dishes (Random House, 2010) was about marriage and behavioral economics. It won a Books for a Better Life award in 2011. Jenny is a frequent speaker and moderator, appearing on panels and on main stages at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Brookings Institution, Teach for All, SXSWEDU, ASU-GSV and ONE, among others. She speaks to finance professionals, management consulting firms, tech companies, schools, and parents to help them better understand teens, learning, tech and life. She lives in London with her husband and two daughters.