Patia Braithwaite Joins Career Programs Team

We're thrilled to announce that Patia Braithwaite is joining the Career Programs team as an editor. In this new role, Patia will oversee our two-year Editing Residency program and support our various efforts to foster and strengthen the early-career pipeline.

Patia will be tasked with managing and evolving the Editing Residency, a first-of-its-kind, long-duration program meant to train the next generation of editors. She also will help our team as we deepen our efforts to scale career guidance and media literacy to more journalists, as well as high school and college students.

She says her interest in the work "is driven, in part, by feeling like a bit of an outsider and wanting others to know there's space for them - and a need for their contributions."

Patia has been a senior staff editor on Well since 2022, where she has been responsible for managing the desk's reporting fellows and editing a mix of news, enterprise, essays and service-related coverage. She was the driving force behind both editing and growing the Well newsletter. For two years, she served as a mentor in The New York Times Corps program.

Before coming to The Times, Patia was health director at Well+Good, where she oversaw coverage of Covid-19, heart health and maternal health, among other topics. Previously, she was an editor at Self magazine and Refinery29, producing accolade-winning work. Her stories have appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, Vice, Allure and The Washington Post.

Patia grew up in Massapequa, N.Y., and received her B.A. in journalism from Hofstra University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Long Island University.

Please join us in congratulating her and welcoming her to the team.

- Ted Kim and Carla Correa