Josie Cox

Josie is a journalist, author, broadcaster and public speaker. She’s worked on staff for Reuters, The Independent and The Wall Street Journal. As a freelancer, she’s written for Bloomberg, Business Insider, The Times, Salon, The Washington Post, Fast Company, Guardian, MSNBC, Fortune, Forbes and many other publications. She also writes a regular column for The Spectator. Josie has appeared on CNN, ABC, PBS, CNBC, public radio and a host of other networks. She contributes to the BBC, both as a writer and broadcaster and is a founding editor of The Persistent, for which she writes weekly. 

She was a 2020/2021 Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Journalism School in New York, and holds a BA from the University of Bath in the U.K. and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She’s an Associate Instructor within the Strategic Communications program at Columbia’s School of Professional Studies. Her first book, WOMEN MONEY POWER: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality (ABRAMS, 2024) charts the history of female economic empowerment in the U.S. since World War II through profiles and stories of unsung heroes. Her second book, REBEL SPIRITS: The Women Who Ended Prohibition and Saved America, is slated for publication in 2027.