Joanne C. Gerstner

Joanne C. Gerstner is an award-winning multimedia sports journalist, author, editor and college professor. She writes about sports, business, pop culture, medicine/health and news of the day for outlets such as The New York Times, ESPN.com, Detroit News, USA Today, PGA Magazine and the Cincinnati Enquirer.

She has covered the world's largest sporting events, from the Olympics, the World Cup, Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, NCAA tournaments, U.S. Open and French Opens.

She specializes in concussion and sports, focusing on youth athletes. She was named a 2012-13 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, to research sports concussion. She was selected as the first sports journalist to win a 2015 Jacobs Foundation Fellowship, to focus neuroscience and child development in Zurich, Switzerland.

She has appeared as a panelist at South by Southwest Sports, the University of Michigan, and other conferences to discuss sports and concussion. She regularly does expert commentary for NPR and the BBC on the world of sports, women in sports, and concussions.

She is the Sports Journalist in Residence at the Michigan State's School of Journalism. Gerstner is BA graduate of Oakland University and has a MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

She is the past president and chair of the board for the Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM).

Her website is joannecgerstner.com, Twitter @joannecgerstner, and will accept autograph/book inscription requests through there.