Michelle Ruiz, Freelance Journalist

Michelle Ruiz is a contributing culture editor at Vogue and frequent cover story author at Vanity Fair, including profiles of Gisele Bündchen, Bad Bunny and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She is a freelance journalist for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, SELF, Bustle and others, covering emergent social trends, gender, politics and the British royal family. Her profile subjects have included Jill Biden, Anita Hill, Kirsten Dunst, Alanis Morisette, Julianne Moore, Issa Rae and Paris Hilton. She is a former senior features editor at Cosmopolitan who began her career as a news writer at ABC News Radio in New York. She attended the University of Virginia. Michelle is completing a novel inspired by the British royal family saga and is adapting a Vogue cover feature on the modern rise of consensual non-monogamy for television.