Alissa Wilkinson is a critic and senior culture reporter at Vox and an associate professor of English and humanities at The King’s College. She’s the author of Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women (Broadleaf, out June 28) and We Tell Ourselves Stories (Liveright, forthcoming). Alissa’s work has appeared at Rolling Stone, Bon Appétit, The Washington Post, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, Eater, The Atlantic, Books & Culture, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Paste, Pacific Standard, and others. She earned an MA in humanities and social thought from NYU and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University.

American Academy President Laurie Patton to Receive Concordia’s 2026 Leadership Award for Civil Society
The Concordia Leadership Council is proud to announce Dr. Laurie L. Patton, President of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, as the second of three recipients of the 2026

