Jeremy Smith

Alum 2003

Jeremy Smith is the editor of Greater Good magazine, which is published by the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. He is the author of the acclaimed book The Daddy Shift, which focuses on changing norms of fatherhood and parenting. Jeremy’s coverage of racial and economic segregation in San Francisco schools has won numerous honors, including the Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting, the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the National Award for Education Reporting and many excellence in journalism awards from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. He is also a three-time winner of the John Swett Award from the California Teachers Association.

Before joining the Greater Good Science Center, Jeremy was a John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University. His articles and essays have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, Utne Reader, The Nation, Mindful, Wired and many other periodicals, websites and books. Jeremy has also been interviewed by The Today Show, the New York Times, USA Today, Working Mother, Nightline, ABC News, NBC News, the Globe and Mail and numerous NPR shows about parenting and education.