Jesselyn Cook is a senior editor at Noema Magazine. She was a 2025 Nieman Fellow at Harvard and teaches narrative journalism at Harvard Summer School. As an investigative reporter at NBC News and, before that, as a senior national reporter at HuffPost, she covered the intersection of tech, culture and politics.

Cook is the author of “The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family,” which won a J. Anthony Lukas Award from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. She holds an M.A. in journalism and international relations from New York University.