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Charlotte Alter is a Senior Correspondent at TIME and the author of The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America (Viking, 2020). She also hosted TIME’s Person of the Week podcast. She is the recipient of the Newswomen’s Club’s Front Page Award for Best Magazine Feature (2023) and for Specialized Reporting in Politics (2024.) Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Vox. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the novelist and journalist Mark Chiusano, and their two children.
“When it comes to political prescience today, Time magazine writer Charlotte Alter is arguably peerless. ”
“She does an excellent job detailing — with persuasive data — what has shaped and motivated this young generation so far… thanks to Alter’s timely book we can have a better understanding of why an entire generation was set back and what’s driving it now. ”
“She is by turns sarcastic, funny and sincere, but always conversational…Alter’s book will come as a tonic to millennials who have grown weary of boomers’ well-worn complaints about them.”
From 2023-2024 she hosted the Person of the Week podcast, a weekly series of intimate conversations about what shapes the people who shape the world. Person of the Week is a co-production of TIME Studios and Sugar 23, and guests include Ethan Hawke, Gov. Wes Moore, Rep. Maxwell Frost, Candace Bushnell, Jack Antonoff, Fran Drescher, Bobbi Brown and more.