Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Female
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Fara Warner is a lecturer in the department of communication studies at the University of Michigan. She was the 2007-2009 Howard R. Marsh Professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan. She teaches courses in multimedia journalism, global press freedom, and media culture.
She is the author of The Power of the Purse: How Smart Companies Are
Adapting to the World’s Most Important Consumers—Women and is currently at work on a second book on women and economic power. She has spoken to audiences around the world on the issues of women and financial power and how companies and countries can tap into the growing power of women in the global economy.
During the past two decades, she has written about economics, business, marketing, advertising, and consumer trends for national and international publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Fast Company. As a freelance business journalist, she is a frequent contributor to Forbes Asia, Mother Jones, The New York Times, and other publications. She is the recipient of the 2005-2006 Knight Wallace Fellowship in Journalism at the University of Michigan where she studied the effect of globalization on Chinese culture. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, and an undergraduate degree in communications from the University of Utah.
