Leah McGrath Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author, speaker and media commentator covering various fields such as finance, politics, technology, and culture for the last two decades. Goodman serves as Lead Editor and Writer at The Daily Upside's Power Corridor, a new publication that charts shifting dynamics from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. She also serves as Writer-at-Large for Institutional Investor and served as a Fellow at the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Throughout her career, Goodman has written for CNN, Forbes, Fortune, Financial Times, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Marie Claire, Dow Jones Newswires, and Barron's in New York and London, where she was a special writer, editor and foreign correspondent.
EARLY CAREER
Goodman was Vice President of BlackRock Investment Institute, where she developed, wrote and edited proprietary research and global economic outlooks.
She served as Head Writer and Editor at School for International Training, the original training ground for the Peace Corps.
She was a Finance and Features Editor at Newsweek, where she also served as a Senior Investigative Journalist.
She was a Special Correspondent at Fortune Magazine and a Special Writer and Editor at The Wall Street Journal.