Jo Napolitano

Jo Napolitano spent nearly two decades reporting for The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Newsday before winning a Spencer Education Fellowship to Columbia University in 2016 in support of her reporting on immigrant youth. Her first book, The School I Deserve: Six Young Refugees and Their Fight for Equality in America, was published by Beacon Press in Spring 2021.Napolitano, who was thrilled to join the staff of The 74, an online education news site run by her former boss at The New York Times, has reported on many topics throughout her award-winning career, including crime and science. But education remains her primary focus. Napolitano lives in New York City. She is a recent Education Writers Association Fellow and a recipient of a grant from the Fund For Investigative Journalism.