Kate Zernike is a national correspondent for The New York Times, where she has worked since 2000. She was a member of the team that shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for a series of stories about Al Qaeda and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Her new book, “The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science,” based on a story she broke as a reporter for The Boston Globe, will be published by Scribner in February 2023. She is also the author of “Boiling Mad: Behind the Lines in Tea Party America”, published in 2010. Ms. Zernike began her career at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass. She received a degree in history and English from the University of Toronto and received a masters degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where she has taught as an adjunct professor.

Transforming Urban Cardiovascular Health
At the 2025 Concordia Annual Summit, leaders from across sectors gathered to address one of the most pressing global health challenges: cardiovascular disease in rapidly growing urban environments. In partnership with

