Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Katrina vanden Heuvel (born October 7, 1959) is the editor, part-owner, and publisher of The Nation magazine. She has been the magazine's editor since 1995. She is a frequent guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
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[edit] Awards
Katrina vanden Heuvel's article, Right-to-Lifers Hit Russia, won her the Maggie Award from Planned Parenthood. She was the 2003 recipient of the Voices of Peace award from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
In addition to various other awards, vanden Heuvel has also been recognized by the New York Civil Liberties Union, a branch of the much larger American Civil Liberties Union. She is a member of the advisory board of the Roosevelt Institution.
[edit] Personal
Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor of The Nation magazine and a member of the Board of Trustees of closely-related The Nation Institute.
She is also an owner of The Nation, being one of a handful of investors brought together in 1995 by then-Editor Victor Navasky in a for-profit partnership to buy the magazine - then losing $500,000 a year more - from investment banker Arthur Carter. This group of investors included, among others, former Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chairman Alan Sagner, novelist E.L. Doctorow, actor Paul Newman and Peter Norton computer software creator of Norton Utilities.
Born in 1959, vanden Heuvel studied politics and history at Princeton, writing her Senior thesis on McCarthyism. She has said that during these years she sometimes "felt like a Russian." She graduated Summa cum Laude from Princeton University in 1981. She worked as a production assistant at ABC Television. According to a Princeton alumni publication, during her Junior year she had already worked "as a Nation intern for nine months after faking the 'Politics and the Press' course taught by Blair Clark, the magazine's editor from 1976 to 1978" and "returned to The Nation in 1984 as assistant editor for foreign affairs."
Her father William J. vanden Heuvel served between 1953 and 1954 as executive assistant to founder of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William "Wild Bill" Donovan during Donovan's tenure as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand. Vanden Heuvel later became a Board Member of the Farfield Foundation, widely branded by conspiracy enthusiasts of the Right and Left as a purported CIA front group. By the early 1960s van den Heuvel was a special assistant to New York Governor Averill Harriman and then to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In 1976 Bill vanden Heuvel was chairman of Jimmy Carter's New York primary campaign committee. Following Carter's victory, vanden Heuvel served from 1979 until 1981 as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations with the rank of Ambassador. Today he sits on the board of the United Nations Association-USA and several other organizations.
He has brought daughter Katrina into such power vortices with him, onto the board of directors of New York City's Correctional Association and onto the Board of Governors of a group he co-chairs, FERI, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. (On her own she gained a seat on the Board of the leftwing Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)).
In 1988 Katrina vanden Heuvel wed New York University history Professor Stephen F. Cohen, two decades her senior and an expert on the Soviet Union. They have one daughter, Nicola. Today, Cohen is a Contributing Editor at his wife's magazine.
In 1989 van den Heuvel was promoted to The Nation's editor-at-large position, responsible for its coverage of the USSR. In 1990 she co-founded Vyi i Myi ["You and We"], a quarterly feminist journal linking American and Russian women. She also did reporting for the Moscow News.
In 1995, vanden Heuvel was made editor of The Nation. She and Navasky moved aggressively to expand The Nation via radio, the Internet, books and other synergistic opportunities.
Katrina vanden Heuvel's latest book is Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right, co-authored with Nation Contributing Editor Robert L. Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future. It is published by Nation Books.
[edit] Bibliography
- Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers 1990, co-authored with Stephen F. Cohen (ISBN 0-393-30735-2)
- A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy, and September 11, 2001 2002, edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel (ISBN 1-56025-400-9)
- Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right 2004, edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert Borosage (ISBN 1-56025-583-8)
- Dictionary of Republicanisms: The Indispensable Guide to What They Really Mean When They Say What They Think You Want to Hear 2005 (ISBN 1-56025-789-X)
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[edit] External links
- The Nation Bio
- Katrina vanden Heuvel's campaign contributions
- "Tomdispatch Interview: Katrina vanden Heuvel, the Media on Speed", April 20, 2006.
- vanden Heuvel's blog at the Huffington Post
- Katrina vanden Heuvel's blog "Editor's Cut" at The Nation magazine
