Danielle Dreilinger is an independent journalist writing a book about the history and future of home economics. Previously, she was the education reporter at NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune covering New Orleans’ contentious charter school revolution. Before that she produced WGBH’s local news website and wrote for the Boston Globe covering gentrification, diversity, politics and features. She began her career covering the arts for several outlets, including No Depression magazine and WBUR, where she was part of the team that won the station’s first Online Journalism Award. Danielle was named best features writer by the Louisiana Press Association in 2017 and was a 2018 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan.