Christine Lagorio-Chafkin is a reporter and nonfiction author based in New York. She’s editor at large of Inc. magazine, where she writes features. She created and hosted the What I Know podcast, a long-form interview show featuring remarkable stories of founding and growing companies.

Her reporting about business, education, innovation, and culture, has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, New York, Vanity Fair, and other publications. Prior to joining Inc., she was a writer for CBS News. She began her career interning for The Village Voice’s legendary investigative reporter Wayne Barrett.

Her book about Reddit and Internet culture, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory, was published in 2018 by Hachette Books. (Order it here!)

Her expertise on online platforms, social-media moderation, regulation of Silicon Valley, and many other topics has been featured on NPR’s 1A, Marketplace, MSNBC, and many publications. For speaking engagements or press interviews, send inquiries here.

Lagorio-Chafkin grew up on a sheep farm and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in New York City with her three kids, two cats, and one husband.

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