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The Gender & Women's Studies program presents Jia Tolentino as this year's guest speaker for the Gail Martin and Catherine Ward Visiting Lecture Series.

Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker, covering a range of topics in news and culture, including the age of Instagram face and, with Ronan Farrow, Britney Spears' conservatorship. Previously, she was the deputy editor of Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. She received a Whiting Award and the Jeannette Haien Ballard Prize in 2020, as well as a National Magazine Award in 2023. Her first book, the essay collection Trick Mirror (2019), is a New York Times bestseller that explores internet culture, reality TV, university sexual assault, and the evolution of literary heroines.