Allison Gilbert is an Emmy award-winning journalist and co-author of Listen, World!, the first biography of American writer Elsie Robinson, a newspaper columnist who came from nothing and became the most-read woman in the country and highest-paid woman writer in the William Randolph Hearst media empire.

Gilbert writes regularly for The New York Times, is host of Women Journalists of 9/11: Their Stories, a 20-part documentary series, and co-executive producer of the companion 2-hour film. She is the official narrator of the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s historical exhibition audio tour, the only female journalist to be so honored.