Lylah M. Alphonse

Lylah M. Alphonse (born 1972, Princeton, New Jersey) is an American journalist.

Family and life

Her mother is a Parsi from India and her father is from Haiti. The eldest of three children, Alphonse attended Princeton Day School.

A graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University,^[1] she was inducted to the Newhouse School's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2000.^[2]

Career

In 1994, she began working as an editor at The Boston Globe newspaper in Boston, where she eventually became a member of the newspaper's Sunday magazine staff.^[3] She also wrote frequently for their Travel,^[4] Food,^[5] National & Foreign News, and Living/Arts^[6] sections. She has also been Consulting Editor for the Fezana Journal,^[7] Managing Editor at Work It, Mom!,^[8] and Senior Editor and Writer at Yahoo.com,^[9] where she covered news, parenting trends, health, women's issues,^[10] and politics and interviewed First Lady Michelle Obama,^[11] presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett,^[12] and others.

She became the Managing Editor for Special Reports at U.S. News & World Report in June 2013, and was promoted to Managing Editor for News a year later.^[13][14]

Ms. Alphonse formerly wrote the blog The 36-Hour Day blog^[15] and Write. Edit. Repeat.,^[16] is the author of "Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr"^[17] (ISBN 0-9709937-0-6), and has contributed articles to Our Times (5th edition, Bedford Books, 1998) and Interactions: A Thematic Reader (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999).^[18]

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