User:KatieOrenstein

Katie Orenstein is an author and journalist, and founder and CEO of The OpEd Project. As a journalist who was trained as a folklorist, I'm interested in how the stories we tell about our world shape the past and the future. For the past several years, I've been involved in an initiative (The OpEd Project Byline Report: "Who Narrates the World?") to track the individuals and ideas shaping what we think of politics, culture, and history, in major opinion forums.

I lived and worked in Haiti in the 1990s, where I worked as a student, a journalist, a human rights observer for the United Nations, and also helped coordinate the work of a team of international lawyers charged with helping victims of military and paramilitary crimes bring their cases in court. I'm the author of Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale which explores major plot lines about women over time and across continents. I'm an ardent fan of hound dogs.