Liza Donnelly, The New Yorker Cartoonist: A Very Funny Lady

Liza Donnelly, a writer and award-winning cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine, shared the story behind her title with us on July 17, 2024.

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Of the interview, our founder and host, Sue Rocco, says: "Listen in as I sit down with Liza to discuss a troubled home growing up, finding her love of drawing and making people laugh, landing a spot at The New Yorker as the youngest female cartoonist and exploring the long history of women trying to find their voice."

Liza has been drawing cartoons and writing about culture and politics for The New Yorker Magazine for forty years. She has contributed to CBS News and CNN, creating political cartoons as well as live-drawing special cultural and political events. Donnelly writes and draws for The New York Times and CNN Opinion pages and the Washington Post. Liza is also a screenwriter, working on her third feature and currently pitching a documentary.

Donnelly delivered a very popular TED talk, which was translated into 40 languages and viewed over 1.4 million times. She is a return speaker at SXSW, has delivered talks at the United Nations in New York and Geneva, The New Yorker Festival, five TEDxes (most recently in Charlottesville, Virginia), universities, NGOs and corporate venues in the US and abroad. Donnelly has been a Cultural Envoy for the US State Department, traveling around the world to speak about freedom of speech, cartoons and women’s rights.

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