Senior Writer, Fortune

Jen Wieczner is a senior writer at Fortune, co-founding editor of The Ledger, Fortune’s franchise dedicated to the intersection of finance and technology, and co-chair of the Fortune Brainstorm Finance conference. Her recent writing includes an award-winning investigation into Paul Singer's activist hedge fund Elliott Management; cover stories on legal marijuana and the Bitcoin bubble; and profiles of business titans from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, such as hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen and former HP chief Meg Whitman. Jen also co-hosts a weekly video show dedicated to fintech, “Balancing the Ledger,” Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Time, Fast Company, The Atlantic, New York and Glamour. She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.