Collier Meyerson
Collier Meyerson is a Knobler Fellow at Type Media Center. She is also a contributor at WIRED Magazine and New York Magazine. She received an Emmy for her work on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes and has won two awards from the National Association of Black Journalists for her writing. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Glamour, New York Magazine, n+1, the New York Times Magazine, and WIRED, among others.
Recent Work
NYC’s School Closures Are a Crisis of Their Own for Disadvantaged Families
There are 1,100,000 students in New York City’s 1,722 public schools.
By Collier Meyerson in the Intelligencer.
Here’s Why Texans Had to Wait Six Hours to Vote
The state closed a record 750 polling places from 2012 to 2018.
By Ari Berman in Mother Jones.
Is This the End of Oversharing?
The internet has been reshaped by a fresh anxiety over posting — and revealing — too much.
By Collier Meyerson in Wired.
The Decade Witchy Things Went Mainstream
Burning down capitalism, one incense stick at a time.
By Collier Meyerson in Slate.
VSCO Girls Are Just Banal Victorian Archetypes
The VSCO girls who rise to the top of my feed are a new version of an enduring image of piousness and demureness as the ultimate ambition.
By Collier Meyerson in Wired.
Puerto Rico’s Ouster of Its Governor Isn’t Just About One Administration’s Corruption
In the weeks after the eruption of protests in Puerto Rico, a majority of the news coverage focused on the scandal and corruption that encased Ricardo Rosselló.
By Collier Meyerson in the Intelligencer.
A Landmark Bill Will Change the Way Doulas Do Business in New York
Last month a bill quietly passed through the New York State Legislature that puts birth workers, commonly known as doulas, on a path to becoming professionalized in the eyes of the state.
By Collier Meyerson in the Intelligencer.
The YouTubers Who Changed the Landscape for #NaturalHair
Makeup tutorials have been around since the beginning, but vloggers now enjoy a different level of success.
By Collier Meyerson in Wired.
Tiffany Cabán Wants to Reimagine Criminal Justice in Queens
Tiffany Cabán, a career public defender, is running for district attorney of Queens with an ambitious criminal-justice-reform agenda.
By Collier Meyerson in the Intelligencer.
Every Black Woman Deserves a Doula
On the December day I found out I was carrying a baby, the only thing I could think about was my own mortality.
By Collier Meyerson in New York Magazine.