Alice Chasan

Alice Chasan served as editor and associate publisher of Shelterforce magazine, nhi.org, and shelterforce.org through 2008.

During 29 years as a journalist, Chasan has won awards for her investigative and political reporting and public-policy analysis. Her magazine posts have included the chief editorship of World Press Review magazine, executive editorships at Tikkun and The American Prospect, and the chief editorship of New Jersey Reporter, a monthly magazine of politics and public policy. She also served as program and editorial director at the Committee to Protect Journalists, the New York City-based international press freedom advocacy organization.

She has been a frequent guest on radio and television programs, speaking on domestic policy and politics, international affairs, press freedom, and religion. Her comments on these topics have appeared in national newspapers and magazines and in the media abroad.

A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, where she received a bachelor’s degree cum laude in classical and Near Eastern archaeology, Chasan also has a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in religious studies with a specialization in modern Jewish social and intellectual history and social scientific approaches to the study of religion. She has taught at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Temple University.

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