2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Monday Mon
Leadership Lunch & Learn: Writing an Op-Ed
Virtual via Zoom
Op-eds are a powerful tool for amplifying your subject matter expertise and lived experiences. Op-eds can shift public discourse, land your research in front of policy-makers, and connect you to diverse audiences within and beyond the academy. But how can you translate these complexities to peers and non-experts when you are deep in the weeds of your area of expertise? In this one-hour, virtual workshop, we will discuss how to transform your ideas into compelling narratives, how to select the most suitable publication for your op-ed, and how to pitch editors.
Pre-work:
- Please bring an op-ed to the workshop, ready to share your perspective on why the op-ed is or isn't successful.
- Please also bring a 2-3 sentence summary of a topic on which you would like to publish an op-ed.
Speaker
Dr. Seema Yasmin
Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy award-winning journalist and author whose opinion and reported pieces appear in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, CNN.com, Scientific American, WIRED, and other outlets. She is the author of 10 books and four forthcoming books and clinical assistant professor in the School of Medicine. (More info at seemayasmin.com.)