About Jan

JAN GOODWIN is an award-winning author and journalist for national publications, who writes for: The New York Times Magazine; The Nation; Harper's Bazaar; O, the Oprah Magazine; MORE Magazine; Marie-Claire; Real Simple; Reader's Digest;  Family Circle; Good Housekeeping; Ladies' Home Journal; Redbook; Glamour; AARP; New York Magazine; Discover; Self; and Utne.
 

Bylines have also appeared in Biography; Conceive; Cosmopolitan; Jane; Lifetime; McCall's; Mademoiselle; New Woman; Rosie; Spirituality & Health; and UN publications.

She has also been a Contributing Editor for MORE Magazine, and Senior International Editor for Marie-Claire Magazine.

Article topics include: investigative reportage; social justice; medical and health; war, conflict and human rights; and profiles.

Jan's prior experience includes being: Executive Editor at Ladies' Home Journal; and at US Magazine, when it was launched by The New York Times Magazine Development Company. She was Editor-in-Chief of On The Issues, a political women's quarterly then in print; and News Editor of Britain's largest news and feature syndication agency. 

 

Her interviews include heads of state, royalty and rebel leaders, plus celebrities and political profiles.

She has covered wars/unrest in Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Kosovo, the Middle East and Gulf, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Uganda.         

 In a hiatus from journalism, Goodwin started and ran the U.S. Save the Children's multimillion dollar humanitarian program in Peshawar for war-orn Afghanistan for four years. Funded by USAID, the UN, and EU, projects included transporting humanitarian aid under war conditions, reconstruction of bomb-damaged infrastructure, including schools, hospitals and clinics; mother & child health; income-generating/microenterprise.

Her involvement with Save the Children was an outgrowth of her longtime human rights activism.