Laura Pappano

Laura Pappano

Writer-in-Residence

Investigates and writes on gender equity in sports and writes about K-12 education and higher education

Laura Pappano is the inaugural writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW). An experienced journalist who writes about education and gender equity issues in sports, Pappano has been widely published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Hechinger Report, The Boston Globe, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, Good Housekeeping, Working Mother, and The Harvard Education Letter, among other publications. She is the author of Inside School Turnarounds, published by Harvard Education Press (2010) and The Connection Gap: Why Americans Feel So Alone, published by Rutgers University Press (2001). She is co-author with Eileen McDonagh of Playing with the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal in Sports, published by Oxford University Press (2008) and winner of the Choice Award. Her piece “How Big Time Sports Ate College Life,” is included in The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition (8th edition, 2013; 9th edition 2017).

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