Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen (born Maria Alexandrovna Gessen (Russian: Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Ге́ссен, IPA: [maˈrʲijə ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvnəˈɡʲesən]) 13 January 1967) is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator and activist. She is known for being a very vocal critic of the Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump.[1] She was born in Moscow.
Gessen is openly a lesbian.[2] She lives in New York City.[3]
Gessen has written columns for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report. Since 2017, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker.
Masha Gessen Media
Gessen at a protest in Moscow in July 2013
References
- ↑ Gessen, Masha (10 November 2016). Autocracy: Rules for Survival. http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
- ↑ UNC. "Masha Gessen: "The Rise of Radical 'Family Values' in Russia". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
- ↑ Gessen, Masha (9 January 2014). A Kind of Racism We're Not Used To. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/opinion/gessen-a-kind-of-racism-were-not-used-to.html?_r=2. Retrieved 31 May 2014.