Joel Dreyfuss | |
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Born | September 1945 (age 78) |
Alma mater | City College of New York (1971) |
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Years active | before Dec 1979 – c. Sep 2011 |
Spouse | Veronica Pollard |
Joel Dreyfuss (born September 1945) is a Haitian-American retired editor and journalist.
A Haitian-American, Joel Dreyfuss was born in September 1945 in Port-au-Prince, Republic of Haiti. [1] He grew up in Monrovia, New York City, and Paris. [2] In 1971, Dreyfuss graduated from City College of New York, and five years later moved to San Francisco. [3]
By February 2012, he and his wife, Veronica Pollard, had moved to Paris to research Dreyfuss' family history and write a book chronicling their emigration from Africa to France and Haiti. His first draft was finished by late 2016. [1]
Dreyfuss co-founded the National Association of Black Journalists, [2] and he was a nominating judge for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize. [4] In 1989, Dreyfuss co-authored The Bakke Case: The Politics of Inequality ( Regents of the University of California v. Bakke) with Charles Lawrence III. [3] By December 2009, Dreyfuss' career was over 30 years old. [5]
He has worked for the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Fortune, KPIX-TV, KQED-FM, the New York Post, USA Today, The Washington Post, [5] and WNET. [3] He has been a magazine editor for Black Enterprise, InformationWeek, PC Magazine, The Root, [1] and Red Herring. [2]
In September 2011, Dreyfuss decided to retire. [1] In mid-2016, he became a contributing columnist for The Washington Post's Global Opinions initiative. [2] As of March 2023 [update], Dreyfuss was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, having been so since at least February 2019. [6]