Jane Pratt
| Jane Pratt | |
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| Born |
November 11, 1962 San Francisco, California |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College |
| Occupation | Magazine editor, publisher |
| Spouse(s) | Andrew Shaifer |
| Children | 1 |
Jane Pratt (born November 11, 1962) is the founding editor of Sassy and Jane, and current editor of xoJane. She is the host of the talk show Jane Radio on Sirius XM Radio.
Jane Pratt was born in San Francisco, California to Sheila Marks Blake, an artist, and Vernon Pratt, a minimalist painter and professor of art at Duke University. Her mother grew up in Queens, New York and her maternal grandfather, Joseph Marks, was a vice-president of the Doubleday publishing company. Her paternal grandfather was Gaither Pratt, a paranormal psychology researcher at the University of Virginia. Pratt's parents were divorced when she was 13. She was raised in Durham, North Carolina and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts at the age of 15. After graduating from Phillips Academy, Pratt enrolled at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where she received a degree in Communications with a minor in Modern dance. Her publishing career began with internships at Rolling Stone magazine and Sportstyle, a Fairchild Publication. After graduating, Pratt landed her first job as assistant editor of McCall's and in 1986, became an associate editor of Teenage Magazine. From there she went on to found Sassy Magazine.
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