Graciela Mochkofsky is dean of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. At the Newmark J-School, Graciela launched the nation’s first bilingual master’s journalism program, oversaw a groundbreaking project that in four years helped infuse nearly $50 million of city funds into NYC community media and, in her first year as Dean, secured a $10 million gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies and launched a fundraising campaign designed to make the school tuition-free. A native of Argentina, Graciela is also an active journalist. She is currently a contributing writer for The New Yorker and has worked as a political correspondent with La Nación in Argentina and as a columnist and blogger for El País in Spain. She is the author of seven books of nonfiction.
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