Bari Weiss Keynote Speaker

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020, Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Prior to that, she served as an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and was a senior editor at Tablet Magazine.

Weiss is the author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism,” which won a 2019 National Jewish Book Award and a Natan Notable Book Award. She has received numerous accolades, including the LA Press Club’s 2021 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism, and the Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize, which honors writing that “best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence.” In 2019, Vanity Fair called her the Times’s “star opinion writer,” and The Jerusalem Post named her the seventh most influential Jew in the world.

In 2023, Weiss and The Free Press won the Dao Prize for their work on the Twitter Files. A proud Pittsburgh native, Bari Weiss currently lives in Los Angeles with her wife and daughter.