Amy Zimmer

Amy Zimmer is the Bureau Chief for Chalkbeat New York and an Executive Editor of P.S. Weekly, a student-reported podcast about the NYC school system. She is an award-winning journalist who previously covered education for the New York news site DNAinfo. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Metro newspaper, and City Limits, among other outlets. Her book, “Meet Miss Subways,” focused on one of the nation’s first integrated beauty contests. Amy received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Yale and has a master’s in journalism from New York University. She got her start in journalism writing for The Beacon, the student newspaper at Forest Hills High School in Queens.