Katherine Reynolds Lewis

Katherine Reynolds Lewis is an award-winning independent journalist based in the Washington D.C. area and author of The Good News About Bad Behavior (PublicAffairs, 2018), about why modern kids are so undisciplined and how innovators are rebuilding lost self-control, resolving family conflict and changing the trajectory of young lives.

Katherine contributes to The Atlantic, Fortune magazine, Parents, USA Today’s magazine group, the Washington Post and Working Mother magazine. Her byline has also appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, MSN Money, Money, Mother Jones, the New York Times, Parade, Slate, and the Washington Post Magazine. In 2008, Katherine created a website on working moms for About.com, which she ran until 2014, attracting millions of readers to the site, its blog and weekly newsletter. Her story for Mother Jones magazine about school discipline went viral after it was published in July 2015, becoming the site’s most-viewed piece to date.

In two decades as a journalist, Katherine’s work has won recognition from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Chicago Headline Club. She’s received fellowships from the Carey Institute for Global Good, the National Press Foundation, the Poynter Institute, the Association of Opinion Journalists and the University of Maryland’s Casey Journalism Center. Residencies include Moulin à Nef, Ragdale and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She's appeared on CNN, NPR, Bloomberg television and radio, and HuffPost Live, as well as numerous radio programs nationally and internationally.

When Katherine worked as a national correspondent for Newhouse News Service from 2003 to 2008, her articles on money, work and family were published by Newhouse newspapers more often than any other reporter in the Washington bureau, appearing in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Newark Star-Ledger, New Orleans Times-Picayune and Portland Oregonian, among others. Previously, she reported for Bloomberg News in Washington on everything from labor, agriculture, finance, media and tech policy to Congress and the White House, and saw her articles published in newspapers around the world. She began her career in New York City with the Bond Buyer.

Katherine graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in physics and is a certified parent educator with the Parent Encouragement Program. She and her husband Brian are the proud parents of three children.