Pamela Cytrynbaum

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Pamela Cytrynbaum teaches writing and multimedia storytelling at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. At Brandeis University she taught in American Studies, served as associate director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and director of the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project. She taught courses in writing and in New Media Communications in the English Department at Oregon State University. She writes for NBC Universal in Woman on the Verge and is a former staff writer for The Chicago Tribune and The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Parent and The Oregonian.


Pages authored by Pamela Cytrynbaum

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Students Use Classroom to Inspire Others Some of my favorite teaching moments are when I can shut up and let students teach each other. This magic happened recently when a group of high...
Giving the Gift of a College Education One of the most powerful gifts we can give our children—for the future of our nation—is a college education. It may, in fact, be the most powerful...
Becoming the Minority Offers New Insight Have you ever been the only (fill in category) person in the room? Race, class, gender, age, body type, marital status—any number of identifiers can...
Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their...
Turning Headlines into Impromptu Lessons The explosion of news coverage over the controversial execution of Troy Davis in Georgia recently is a reminder that our students learn powerful...
Public School Integration Still ‘Best Goal’ When my daughter pulls hard on the heavy glass doors of the Martin Luther King Jr. Laboratory School and races upstairs into her fifth-grade...
Race Talk When Diversity Equals One It happens in every class. We’re discussing a text, a publication, a current event, a poem. The content doesn’t matter. It’s the phrase that counts...