Alexandra Robbins

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT ALEXANDRA ROBBINS

New book: THE TEACHERS: A Year Inside America\'s Most Vulnerable, Important Profession. Named a “Most Anticipated Book of 2023” by Literary Hub, The Next Big Idea Club, Kirkus, and Zibby Books. Starred early reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. The recipient of a \"Distinguished Service to Public Education\" award and the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Journalism, Robbins is the author of 5 New York Times bestsellers. She is an investigative, education, and healthcare reporter who has written for several publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Atlantic Monthly, and The Washington Post. Her books include The Overachievers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and People magazine Critics’ Choice, and The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth, which won several awards, including Best Nonfiction Book of the Year in the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards, the only people’s choice awards for books. Hailed by the press as “One of, if not the most, widely read journalists under age 35” and “an excellent stylist and a first-rate mind,” Robbins is the winner of the Heartsongs award for contributions to the mental health of children and young adults, a 2016 Exceptional Merit in Media Award (given by the National Women\'s Political Caucus), the 2014 Donald Robinson Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism, the 2014 June Roth Award for Medical Journalism, and a 2012 Books for a Better Life Award. She regularly appears on national television on shows such as 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Oprah, The View, CNN News & The Colbert Report. She has appeared as an on-air expert on hundreds of other shows on dozens of networks.