Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta
Franke-Ruta in 2007
Born	(1972-07-29) July 29, 1972 (age 51) Cavaillon, Vaucluse, France
Alma mater	Harvard University
Occupations	Journalist author
Parent	Peter Ruta
Relatives	Nelson Frank (grandfather) Vanessa Ruta (sister) Johanna Hurwitz (aunt) Ted Frank (cousin)

Garance Franke-Ruta was most recently the executive editor of GEN by Medium. She has worked as Washington editor of Yahoo News and editor in chief of Yahoo Politics, Voices columnist and politics editor of The Atlantic Online, national web politics editor for the Washington Post,^[1] senior editor at the American Prospect and senior writer at the Washington City Paper, D.C.'s alternative weekly newspaper. Her work has also appeared in Medium magazine, New York, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Slate, Salon, The Washington Monthly, Legal Affairs, Utne Reader and National Journal. After first attending Hunter College, she transferred to Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1997.^[2]