Fortesa Latifi is a journalist based in Los Angeles, California.

Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Teen Vogue, and Cosmopolitan, among other publications. She is a Faculty Associate at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. Her writing focuses on the influencer economy, mental health, and the way politics affects our daily lives and relationships.

You may know her from her reporting on influencer parents and their children, a CNN appearance in which she talked about her story on what it’s like to be the child of a January 6 Insurrectionist, Hillary Clinton tweeting her viral story about teen abortion activist Olivia Julianna, or maybe you’ve read one of her three published books. However you found your way over, she’s glad you’re here.