Liza Donnelly is a veteran writer and cartoonist for The New Yorker Magazine, where she comments on culture and politics. She also contributes to the New York Times and CNN opinion pages, and The Washington Post. Her TED talk was translated into 42 languages and viewed online 1.5 million times. She had delivered talks at the United Nations, The New Yorker Festival, SXSW twice, five TEDx’s, numerous universities, NGOs and corporate venues in the US and abroad. Liza was a cultural envoy for the US State Department, traveling to speak about freedom of speech and women’s rights.
Liza is the innovator of digital, visual journalism called live-drawing. For CBS News, CNN and The New Yorker, she covered the DNC, Inauguration, White House Press conference, Tony Awards, Grammys, women’s marches and other cultural political events. She was the first cartoonist to be granted access to live-draw the Academy Awards, and is in her sixth year doing so. Her drawings are collected in the Academy Library.
Author of 18 books, most recently Very Funny Ladies, she was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Liza is a charter member of the project Cartooning for Peace, which promotes global understanding through humor. She is a recipient of an honorary PhD from University of Connecticut and is currently visiting scholar at Vassar College.