Katrina vanden Heuvel

Katrina vanden Heuvel has been The Nation's editor since
1995.

She is the co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking
Down The Radical Right (NationBooks, 2004).

She is also co-editor (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of
Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Norton,
1989) and editor of The Nation: 1865-1990, and the
collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism,
Democracy and September 11, 2001.

She is a frequent commentator on American and international
politics on MSNBC, CNN and PBS. Her articles have appeared
in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York
Times and The Boston Globe.

Her weblog for thenation.com is "Editor's Cut."

She is a recipient of Planned Parenthood's Maggie Award for
her article, "Right-to-Lifers Hit Russia." The special
issue she conceived and edited, "Gorbachev's Soviet Union,"
was awarded New York University's 1988 Olive Branch Award.
Vanden Heuvel was also co-editor of Vyi i Myi, a Russian-
language feminist newsletter.

She has received awards for public service from numerous
groups, including The Liberty Hill Foundation, The
Correctional Association and The Association for American-
Russian Women. In 2003, she received the New York Civil
Liberties Union's Callaway Prize for the Defense of the
Right of Privacy. She is also the recipient of The American-
Arab Anti-discrimination Committee's 2003 "Voices of Peace"
award. Vanden Heuvel is a member of The Council on Foreign
Relations, and she also serves on the board of The
Institute for Women's Policy Research, The Institute for
Policy Studies, The World Policy Institute, The
Correctional Association of New York and The Franklin and
Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

She is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University,
and she lives in New York City with her husband and
daughter.