Anna Louie Sussman, National Fellow, is a freelance journalist based in New York. A former staff reporter at Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, she now writes about gender, economics, and reproduction for publications including the New Yorker and the New York Times. As a fellow, she worked on a book, Inconceivable: Reproduction in an Age of Uncertainty, about the barriers people face in starting or growing their families, for Dey Street Books.
Selected Work
- The End of Babies: An article for the New York Times about why people are having fewer babies, even though many want to start families.
- The Promise and Perils of the New Fertility Entrepreneurs: A story about how entrepreneurs, backed by venture capital and private equity funds, are selling fertility for the New Yorker.
- When the Government Seizes Your Embryos: A New Yorker article about the barriers facing Polish women who have frozen eggs through IVF but have been blocked by the government from accessing them.
- The Case for Redefining Fertility: An exploration of the ways in which unconventional families such as queer couples and single parents can be considered “socially infertile” and how to accommodate them for the New Yorker.
- Who Can Afford to Get Pregnant? IVF “Baby Scholarships” Raise a Class Issue: An article for the Guardian about the high price of reproductive technology in the United States and how it determines who gets to start a family.