Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor at The American Prospect, where she covers electoral politics and blogs for the magazine’s group blog, Tapped. She was previously a senior writer and news editor at City Paper, Washington D.C.’s alternative weekly newspaper. In 2004-2005, Garance was a Security and Liberty Post-9/11 fellow with the University of Southern California’s Institute for Justice and Journalism. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Salon and National Journal among other publications. Born in the south of France, Garance was raised in Mexico, New Mexico and New York City. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1997. Her research at the Shorenstein Center examined the representation of women in opinion journalism.