Talia Lakritz

Talia Lakritz is a lifestyle correspondent at Business Insider. 

A generalist who loves a good human interest story, Talia's reporting spans multiple verticals including news, politics, travel, and entertainment, with a particular focus on covering politics through a lifestyle lens.

Her work has appeared on Yahoo! News, Thrillist, Travel + Leisure, The Independent, MONEY, and MSN. Her story about the expectation vs. reality of cruise ships was one of Chartbeat's most engaging stories of 2018. She is also featured in the 2020 anthology "Monologues from the Makom: Intertwined Narratives of Sexuality, Gender, Body Image, and Jewish Identity."

Previously, she wrote for The New York Jewish Week and SciShow Space. She holds a BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Barnard College of Columbia University and ordination as an interfaith interspiritual minister from One Spirit Learning Alliance.

She can be found on X @talialakritz.

Selected stories:

• Iceland only has one rabbi. In a world filled with hate, he leads with kindness.

• Inside the Post-Roe Future: Thirteen conversations from the front lines

• For Meghan Markle and the royal family, a dress is never just a dress

• Airlines break thousands of wheelchairs per year, leaving disabled passengers stranded. Activists and politicians are fighting for change.

• A Palestinian restaurant in New York hosted a free Shabbat dinner. Over 1,300 people showed up.

• Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' husband is quitting his job, and future first lady Jill Biden plans to continue teaching. It signals a new era of political spouses.

• Meet 5 women reporting on Russia's invasion of Ukraine from the front lines

• Jill Biden doesn't comment on her clothes — yet another way 'Professor FLOTUS' is making the role her own

• The White House didn't always celebrate Hanukkah — here's how the tradition began