Rebecca Shapiro
Managing Editor
Rebecca joined Columbia Magazine in 2011, after spending five years as an editor in the Random House Publishing Group. She has also worked as a high school writing instructor and college counselor, and has published over 300 articles and book reviews. She holds a B.A. in English from Brown University and an M.Ed in Higher Education from Harvard University.
Articles by Rebecca Shapiro
Around the World in 100 Restaurants
Paul Grinberg '89BUS has dined at ninety-nine of the world’s hundred best eateries
An App That Offers Microfinance on Demand
Shivani Siroya ’06PH is fighting global poverty with tech company Tala
Leap of Faith
Dancer Michael Novak ’09GS has just been cast in the role of a lifetime — Paul Taylor’s successor
Book Review: "The Parking Lot Attendant"
Nafkote Tamirat's debut novel is at once an immigrant narrative, a coming-of-age story, a dystopian fantasy, and a political thriller
Book Review: “Speak No Evil”
Uzodinma Iweala's new novel showcases the author's adeptness at weaving vivid, emotional stories about coming of age in a world often unsafe for young Black men