Danielle Bennett

Danielle McGugins Bennett is a magazine concentrator at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. McGugins Bennett grew up in northern New Jersey and received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Education in special education from the University of Maryland at College Park, where she was a staff writer and the features editor for The Black Explosion campus newspaper. For the last eight years, McGugins Bennett has taught high school special education in Bergen County, N.J., specializing in history and currently, Spanish. She lives in Englewood, N.J. with her husband and 15-month daughter.