Irin Carmon

Irin Carmon
Carmon in 2013
Residence	Brooklyn, NY
Education	Harvard University (2005)
Occupation	political commentator, television personality

Irin Carmon is a naturalized Israeli-American journalist and commentator. She is a national reporter at MSNBC, covering women, politics, and culture for the website and on air. She is a Visiting Fellow in the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School.

In 2011, she was named one of Forbes' "30 under 30" in media and featured in New York Magazine as a face of young feminism. She received the November 2011 Sidney award from The Sidney Hillman Foundation recognizing her reporting on the Mississippi Personhood Initiative for Salon.Mediaite named her among four in its award for Best TV pundit of 2014.

Carmon was born in Israel, the granddaughter of Zionists who lived in Palestine during World War II. She grew up on Long Island.

A graduate of Waldorf School of Garden City in 2001, Carmon attended Harvard College and graduated in 2005 with an AB in Literature, magna cum laude.

While at Harvard, Carmon wrote for The Harvard Crimson and Let's Go (book series). Her senior thesis was titled, "Genealogies of Catastrophe: Yehuda Amichai's Lo Me'Achshav, Lo Me'kan and Ricardo Piglia's Respiracion Artificial."

Early in her career, Carmon wrote regularly for the Boston Globe, the Village Voice, and The Anniston Star. She was a media reporter for the fashion-industry trade journal Women's Wear Daily from 2006 to 2009.

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