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Jazmine Hughes (born 1992) is a writer and associate digital editor at The New York Times Magazine. Previously she served as contributing editor of The Hairpin. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and The New Republic.
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Biography
Hughes attended Connecticut College where she studied government and served as editor-in-chief of the school newspaper before graduating at age 20. After college she attended the Columbia Publishing Course, then began her career as a fact-checker at New York Magazine.
Writing
Hughes has drawn particular attention for her writing on topics from "imposter syndrome" to race and humor, as well as for her own humor writing. In 2016, HelloGiggles named Hughes to its list of "14 Women of the Internet Inspiring Us on International Women's Day" and The L Magazine named Hughes to its 2014 "30 Under 30" list. Brooklyn Magazine named her to its 2016 list of "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture," describing her writing for The Hairpin as "immensely, deservedly popular." Interviewing Hughes in 2015, Longform Podcast describes her as "very young and...very successful in her short time in the media world;" Hughes earned her editorial post at The New York Times Magazine at age 23. The Huffington Post named Hughes's Hairpin piece on her sisters to its year-end list of "28 Pieces From 2014 That Should Be Required Reading For Women" and Autostraddle called her piece on dressing like Cookie Lyon to battle imposter syndrome one of 2015's "best longform written by women."
Advocacy
Hughes is also a cofounder of the group Writers of Color, establishing a searchable database of contemporary writers of color in order to "create more visibility for writers of color, ease their access to publications, and build a platform that is both easy for editors to use and accurately represents the writers."