Barbara Feinman Todd will serve as this year’s Curriculum Advisor for the Journalism Workshop.  In addition to her role as Associate Dean of Journalism for the Masters of Professional Studies, she also is the Journalism Director in Georgetown University’s English Department where she teaches. She has worked in Washington as a freelance editor and writer for more than two decades, assisting as ghostwriter, editor or researcher for senators, journalists, and business leaders on several high-profile books including Bob Woodward’s VEIL (Simon & Schuster, 1987), Carl Bernstein’s Loyalties (Simon & Schuster, 1989), former Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky’s A Woman’s Place: The Freshmen Women Who Changed the Face of Congress (Crown Publishers, 1994); former Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee’s A Good Life (Simon & Schuster, 1994); Palestinian spokesperson Hanan Ashrawi’s This Side of Peace, (Simon & Schuster, 1995); former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s It Takes A Village (Simon & Schuster, 1995); and former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey’s When I Was A Young Man (Harcourt, 2002).

She has a degree in writing from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in English from Georgetown University. She has also taught writing at Johns Hopkins University. Her own work has appeared in many publications including The Washington Post, Glamour, The Writer’s Chronicle and on National Public Radio.