Linda Villarosa directs the journalism program at the City College of New York, and is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. Her article "Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis" was one of Longform's Top Ten of 2018. She is at work on a new book, "Under the Skin: Race, Inequality and the Health of a Nation," due out in 2020.