Liz Plank


Elizabeth Plank is a Canadian author and award-winning journalist. She is a senior producer and political correspondent at Vox.

Early life

Plank attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, studying women's studies and international development. She competed on the school's varsity synchronized swimming team, co-founded Women's Week at McGill and participated in a campus production of The Vagina Monologues.
She later got her Master's degree at the London School of Economics, and began writing articles for the Huffington Post. While attending classes, she launched a Change.org petition that collected more than 55,000 signatures, and succeeded in reversing a decision by the Amateur International Boxing Association requiring female boxers to wear skirts while competing at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Career

In 2013 Plank began her media career as an intern at the New York City-based Mic, then named PolicyMic. She quickly drew an audience for her reporting on feminist issues and after three months was promoted to head of the site's viral content team. She served as a correspondent and co-creator of the weekly video series "Flip the Script", which covered social and political issues. Plank also served as a correspondent for the MSNBC live web show Krystal Clear.
In 2015 Plank was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Media category. Marie Claire ranked her among Mediaite's Most Influential in News Media and one of the 50 most influential women.
Plank works at Vox Media, where she has hosted and produced several critically acclaimed series about politics. In 2016 she produced and hosted 2016ish, an award-winning series about the presidential election, and gave a TedxTalk that inspired her first book, For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity, published by St. Martin's Press in fall 2019. Plank regularly appears on cable news offering political analysis and has been blocked on Twitter by President Donald Trump.