Anya Kamenetz

Anya Kamenetz is a senior writer at Fast Company, where she writes the column Life In Beta about change. Her first book, Generation Debt, addressed the perils of ever-increasing student loan debt. Her second book, DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, introduced a new generation of students to an expanding menu of free and open source higher educational models. And her new e-book, The Edupunks' Guide, continues her work by providing a detailed manual that shows entrepreneurial students how to acquire a high quality and low-cost education outside of the traditional classroom.

She was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post, received two National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association in 2009 and 2010, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing by The Village Voice in 2005. She travels and speaks across the country, Twitters @anya1anya, and occasionally gives commentary on NPR, CNN, and other news networks. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.