Ellen McGirt

Ellen McGirt is a senior editor at Fortune, where she established the race and leadership beat. Her RaceAhead column on race and inclusion in corporate life and beyond has won a New York Press Club Award, National Headliner Award, and the Steven Heller Prize for Commentary from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. McGirt is the editorial director of Fortune Connect, a membership community of executives focused on making the world better through business, and the co-host of Fortune’s “Leadership Next” podcast, which explores the changing rules of business leadership. In summer 2021, she is launching Sweet Equity Media, an independent, virtual newsroom fostering a deeper understanding of the roots of inequity on local and national levels.