Vanessa Bush is Executive Editor of ESSENCE magazine. Previously, she was senior parenting and features editor of ESSENCE magazine, where her duties included writing and editing the parenting columns, in addition to editing and writing center-of-book feature stories with topics ranging from education to personal growth. She also assigns and edits the Making Love Work column, top edits ESSENCE’s fashion and beauty columns and is a contributing writer for ESSENCE's Mind/Body column.
Prior to joining ESSENCE, she served in a variety of editorial capacities at publications such as Life Magazine and Glamour.
Vanessa was awarded a 2003 Journalism Fellowship in Child and Family Policy by the University of Maryland’s Phillip Merrill College of Journalism.
Vanessa received her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in English and American Literature from Harvard University, and her master of science in magazine concentration from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She also received a certificate in book and magazine publishing from the New York University Summer Publishing Institute. She is the coauthor of the book Tyra Banks Beauty Inside & Out.
Vanessa resides with her family in North Plainfield, New Jersey.
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