About

The official, third-person version*

Christine Cupaiuolo is an award-winning writer and editor specializing in politics, culture and gender. She currently covers women’s health and public policy for Our Bodies, Ourselves and is managing editor of the “Our Bodies, Ourselves” book (Simon & Schuster, 2011).  Working with other authors, she applies a red pen and a scholarly (but fun!) approach to all types of nonfiction writing projects.

Since 2005, Christine has led a double life as an expert media consultant, advising individuals and nonprofit organizations on blogs, online writing and social media. She is the web editor of Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning, an online publication supported by the MacArthur Foundation, and teaches workshops on creating and writing blogs and using social media for social good.

She has presented at a number of conferences, including the annual Women, Action & the Media (WAM!) and Making Media Connections. In 2009, she joined the advisory board of the national WAM!

Previously, Christine worked as a newspaper reporter covering government and politics (and a surprising number of murders) in Vermont and New York, and as a researcher for C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb. She later created and wrote ms.musings, Ms. magazine’s popular daily blog on women and media — becoming one of the first bloggers to write for a national magazine — and worked as Ms.’ online editor.

Inspired by FeedMag.com and other early online magazines, she founded PopPolitics.com in 2000, combining an interest in — you guessed it — pop culture and politics. Praised by the Chicago Tribune as “impressive” and “consistently interesting,” PopPolitics published smart cultural criticism by academics and journalists, much of which has been reprinted in other media and anthologies.

A native of New York — and a loyal fan of thin crust — Christine lives in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood with her partner, Bernie Heidkamp, and two lab mutts with super powers (watch as they dig up a garden in 60 seconds and leap tall fences in a single bound!). She hopes someday to learn how to make injera. Contact her here.

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** Credit for my two-dimensional look goes to Deanna Zandt.