LynNell Hancock

LynNell Hancock is a professor of journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she has taught since 1996 and directed the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship. Her specialty is covering education in the broad context of family policy, including juvenile justice, child protection and social welfare, with a focus on racial and social inequality in public education. Before joining Columbia she reported on education for the Village Voice, the New York Daily News and Newsweek. Her Alliance visiting professorship at Paris 1's CESSP supported research on immigrant schools and populations in the banlieues of Paris.