Panelists
Akiba Solomon – Managing Editor, Colorlines.com
Sarah Mirk – Online Editor, Bitch Media
Lori Adelman – Executive Director of Partnerships and Outreach, Feministing.com
About Online Feminist Journalism
Akiba Solomon is the Managing Editor of Colorlines.com and an NABJ-Award winning journalist, editor and essayist from West Philadelphia. Online, she has written about the intersection between gender and race for Colorlines.com and culture for Ebony.com. As Colorlines.com’s inaugural reporting fellow, Solomon reported on reproductive health access for women of color during and immediately after President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. A graduate of Howard University, the Brooklyn resident co-edited Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts (Perigee, 2005), an anthology of original essays and oral memoirs about Black women and body image. Solomon has also been a researcher for Glamour, a health editor for Essence and a senior editor for the print versions of Vibe Vixen and The Source. She has also written for a range of publications on a freelance basis, including Redbook, Vibe and Heart & Soul. As a panelist, she has spoken about women’s and social justice issues through the lens of hip-hop culture at a range of institutions including The Schomburg Center for the Research in Black Culture, Stanford University, Yale University, Harvard University and The University of Chicago.
Bitch Media online editor Sarah Mirk is a journalist and editor who has strong opinions on the future of print and digital media. Raised on the internet, Mirk received a degree in History from Grinnell College and worked for five years as reporter and columnist for weekly newspapers The Stranger and The Portland Mercury. She has also published an acclaimed series of nonfiction comics about Oregon history and her guidebook to nontraditional relationships, Sex From Scratch, is due out from Microcosm Publishing in 2014.
Lori Adelman is a global advocate, writer, and Executive Director of Partnerships and Outreach at the award-winning site Feministing.com. Lori has been with Feministing since 2009, and covers a range of topics including reproductive justice, race, gender, global health and the media. In addition to Feministing, she has written for outlets including The Grio, Rookie Magazine, On The Issues, Salon, RH Reality Check, and Jezebel, and has “appeared” on NPR and WBAI radio. Lori is also an accomplished global health advocate specializing in sexual and reproductive rights and health. She currently works as an Officer in the Global Division of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, providing technical assistance and communications and advocacy support to partners in Latin America and Africa. She has previously worked at the United Nations Foundation on the Secretary-General’s Every Woman Every Child initiative, at the International Women’s Health Coalition, and as an intern in the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. Lori received her B.A. from Harvard College in 2008.