Linda Kramer Jenning has taught journalism at Georgetown, the George Washington University and Boston University. She began her journalism career with The Associated Press in New York, San Francisco and Oregon. She later worked as a freelance reporter for Time Magazine before going to work for its sister publication, People, where she became deputy bureau chief of the Washington, DC bureau.

As a Washington journalist, Prof. Kramer Jenning has reported on the last four presidential campaigns and interviewed national leaders from Bill Clinton to Colin Powell. She traveled to Bosnia, Greece and Turkey with then First Lady Hillary Clinton, and to Kuwait and the Persian Gulf with former Secretary of Defense William Cohen.

A story she reported last year on a wounded marine won Time Inc.’s Henry R. Luce Award for Outstanding Story. She also helped report on the 2006 Sago mining disaster in West Virginia, which won the Luce Deadline Reporting award. In addition, she received a Peter A. Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club for People’s reporting on breast cancer.

Prof. Kramer Jenning became the Washington Editor for Glamour Magazine earlier this year.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in English at Smith College and a master’s in writing from the John Hopkins University. She is a former board member of the Journalism & Women Symposium and chairs its scholarship and mentoring program. She also sits on the board of the Alumnae Association of Smith College and serves as advisor to the Smith Alumnae Quarterly.

She lives with her family and an English springer spaniel in Alexandria, VA.