LynNell Hancock

LynNell Hancock

LynNell Hancock is a reporter and writer specializing in education and child and family policy issues who has taught journalism at Columbia J-School since 1993. In addition to contributing to Newsweek, Columbia Journalism Review , The Nation, and The New York Times she covered education for The Village Voice, the New York Daily News, and Newsweek, and has served on the National Advisory Board for Journalism Fellowships in Child and Family Policy. She is author of Hands to Work: The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare Clock (2002), the upcoming Prairie Fires (2007) and contributed to The Public Assault on America's Children: Poverty, Violence and Juvenile Injustice (2000), to America's Mayor (2005).

Hancock holds an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Literature and and an M.S. in Journalism, both from Columbia.