Rachele Kanigel

Rachele Kanigel is an associate professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, where she advises the award-winning campus newspaper, Golden Gate Xpress. She teaches Newswriting, Reporting, Feature Writing, Magazine Writing, the Contemporary Magazine and Magazine Editing.

Professor Kanigel is executive director of ieiMedia, an organization that sponsors media study abroad programs. She has taught in Cagli, Italy; Urbino, Italy; and Perpignan, France.

She was a newspaper reporter for 15 years for daily newspapers, including The Oakland Tribune and The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina and was a freelance correspondent for TIME magazine. She has also written for U.S. News & World Report, Health, Organic Style, Natural Health, Yoga Journal, Reader's Digest, CNN.com, lime.com and other online and print publications.

She is vice president of College Media Association and is active in the San Francisco chapter of the Online News Association.