Samhita Mukhopadhyay (born May 3, 1978)[1] is an American writer and former executive editor of Teen Vogue. She writes about feminism, culture, race, politics, and dating. She is the author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life and the co-editor of the anthology, Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America.
Career
The child of immigrants from India, Mukhopadhyay was raised in New York City.[2]
Mukhopadhyay earned a master's degree in Women and Gender Studies in 2009 from
San Francisco State University, where her thesis was entitled "The Politics of the Feminist Blogosphere."[5]
Mukhopadhyay is the former Executive Editor of the blog
Feministing.com[6] and former Senior Editorial Director of Culture and Identities at millennial media platform
Mic.[7]
In February 2018, Mukhopadhyay was named executive editor at Teen Vogue, following
Elaine Welteroth's departure from
Condé Nast.[7]
In 2022, after stepping down from Teen Vogue, Mukhopadhyay was named a
MacDowell Fellow.[8]
Books
In 2011, Mukhopadhyay published her first book, Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life,[9] a feminist intervention to mainstream dating books.[3][6][9][10][11][12]
In 2017, Mukhopadhyay co-edited an anthology with
Kate Harding entitled Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America. Mukhopadhyay wrote the introduction to the collection of essays, in which prominent feminists discussed the impact of Donald Trump's election on hard-fought wins for gender, race, sexuality, class and ethnicity.[13][14][15][16][17][18]
Bibliography
Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life (
Seal, 2011)
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance and Revolution in Trump's America, ed. with Kate Harding (
Picador, 2017)