Rebecca Knight is a journalist who writes about all things related to the changing nature of careers and the workplace.
She is a contributing columnist for Harvard Business Review and her essays and reported stories have been featured in The Boston Globe, Business Insider, The New York Times, BBC, and The Christian Science Monitor. She was shortlisted as a Reuters Institute Fellow at Oxford University in 2023. Earlier in her career, she spent a decade as an editor and reporter at the Financial Times in New York, London, and Boston.
Rebecca frequently appears on national television and radio and as a moderator at conferences.
Originally from Maine, she's a graduate of Wesleyan University. She lives in Boston’s South End with her family.
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