Bio

Gillian Goodman is the Editorial Strategy Manager at Founders Pledge, where she runs executive thought leadership and editorial guidelines. She began her career in traditional advertising and then moved into journalism, covering politics  and protests in New York and the 2024 presidential election in Savannah, Georgia. She spent years as a freelance journalist, speechwriter, and creative strategist, with bylines in outlets including Democracy Now!, Truthout, Lux and has been featured in New York Magazine and Vanity Fair.

Gillian has a M.S. from the Columbia Journalism School and a B.A. from Williams College. She lives in Brooklyn where she treasures her in-unit washer and dryer.

Q&A with Gillian

Q: If you could choose anyone famous (real or fictional) to have dinner with who would they be and why?

Orlando, from the Virginia Woolf novel of the same name. What other dinner guest has lived over 400 years and shifted gender somewhere in the middle?

Q: As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Britney Spears.

Q: If a movie was made of your life what genre would it be, who would play you?

Winona Ryder in a remake of Heathers where they all get along.