Monika Bauerlein

Monika Bauerlein is CEO of Mother Jones magazine. Previously, she served as co-editor, spearheading an era of editorial growth and innovation, marked by two National Magazine Awards for general excellence, the addition of a 12-person Washington bureau, and an overhaul of the organization’s digital strategy that grew MotherJones.com’s traffic more than tenfold. She has also worked as Mother Jones’ investigative editor, and as an alternative-weekly editor, a correspondent in Washington, D.C. and at the United Nations, an AP stringer, corporate trainer, translator, sausage slinger, and fishing-line packager. She lives in Oakland.