Author Archives: Ashton Lattimore
Ashton is an award-winning journalist and former lawyer whose work sits at the intersections of racial justice, gender justice, and law. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Slate, CNN, and Essence. In 2021, she was named a Maynard 200 Fellow by the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, and was part of the spring cohort of the Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Media. She is a graduate of Harvard College, Columbia Journalism School, and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Ashton is also an author, and her debut historical fiction novel, "All We Were Promised," is forthcoming from Ballantine Books in 2024. She grew up in New Jersey, and now lives in suburban Philadelphia with her husband and two sons.