Gillian B. White is a Journalist for The Atlantic. Gillian B. White is based in Washington D.C. ^[1]

Gillian B. White attended Columbia University where she received her B.A. in Economics and Political science in 2008. After working in finance for several years, she attended graduate school at Northwestern and in 2012 earned an M.S. in journalism ^[1]

Early in her career, Gillian B. White worked for financial firms such as AIG, Credit Suisse, UBS, and Corporate Insight. She went back to school to study journalism and upon graduating in 2013, became an associate editor at Kiplinger covering economics, financial services, housing, retail and small business. In October 2014, she became a Senior Associate Writer for The Atlantic. She writes for their business section and works on The Next Economy project, telling stories about the new economy and how people (and places) are adapting to it. ^[1]

In 2015, Gillian B. White wrote an article about the lack of minorities in journalism. She cites several statistics that even though minorities make up a certain number of the population, those numbers are not reflected in the newsroom, which she argues are overwhelmingly male and white. Gillian quotes another Atlantic writer, Riva Gold, “Fewer minorities are getting the opportunity to work in news, and news organizations are losing their ability to empower, represent, and—especially in cases where language ability is crucial— even to report on minority populations in their communities.” Both of these writers have the same conclusion at the end of their articles, that lack of growing minority representation will mean swaths of the population voices, concerns, and feelings will not be captured by the press.