Natalie Wexler
American writer
Natalie L. Wexler is an American education writer focusing on literacy and equity issues.
Background and career
Wexler is a graduate of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and Radcliffe College (A.B. 1976, magna cum laude), where she wrote for the Harvard Crimson. After college she worked as a reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal.
Wexler also has degrees from the University of Sussex (Master of Arts 1977), and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (Juris Doctor 1983), where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. After graduating law school, she worked as a law clerk for Judge Alvin Benjamin Rubin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and then for Associate Justice Byron R. White of the United States Supreme Court. Following her clerkships, she practiced law at Bredhoff & Kaiser in Washington, D.C. She later served as an associate editor of the eight-volume series The Documentary History of the Supreme Court, 1789-1800.
Wexler has written articles and essays for a number of publications, including the New York Times, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post. Beginning in 2010 she shifted her focus to education writing and served as education editor of the website Greater Greater Washington for several years. She is currently a senior contributor to Forbes.com focusing on education. She has been interviewed on many TV and radio shows and podcasts, including Morning Joe and NPR’s On Point and 1A.
In 1986, she married James Feldman, an attorney who was a Supreme Court clerk for Justice William J. Brennan.
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