Dana Canedy is a former senior editor at the New York Times and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for "How Race Is Lived in America," a series on race relations in the United States. She served as the administer of Pulitzer Prizes from 2017 to 2020 and as the publisher at Simon & Schuster from 2020 to 2022. She is the author of A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor.