Rachele Kanigel

Rachele Kanigel is a professor and chair of the Journalism Department at San Francisco State University. She was a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years, mostly covering health and medicine for The News & Observer in Raleigh, NC, The Oakland Tribune, and other newspapers, and has written for magazines, including TIME, U.S. News & World Report, San Francisco, Health and Prevention. She is the editor of The Diversity Style Guide, a free website that helps people write with accuracy, authority and sensitivity about a diverse world, and author/editor of a companion book by the same name. She consults with media organizations and trains media professionals in inclusive content. She is also the author of The Student Newspaper Survival Guide and is past president of College Media Association.