Beth Kowitt

Beth Kowitt is former a senior editor at Fortune, where she wrote features primarily on management and leadership issues, the business of food, consumer behavior, sustainability, and race and gender. Her writing received multiple awards, including several SABEW Best in Business and New York Press Club honors. She also co-edited Fortune's annual Most Powerful Women franchise and was a co-chair of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, MPW Next Gen, and the Fortune/U.S. Department of State Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership. Beth, who joined Fortune in 2008, is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in New York City with her children and husband, photographer Karsten Moran.