Brigid Schulte is the director of the Better Life Lab, the work-life, gender equity and social policy program at New America, a nonpartisan think tank, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, formerly of The Washington Post, and the author of the New York Times best-selling “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time,” which sparked a national conversation on gender roles, work culture, busyness and the lost value of leisure. She is a leading expert on time pressure, overwork culture, gender equity and work-life issues whose work has appeared in a number of publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Slate, the Atlantic, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, Fast Company, Time, CNN, Quartz, the Guardian and others. She hosts Better Life Lab podcast, on the art and science of living a full and healthy life, an Apple Top 50 podcast. She’s a sought-after keynote speaker and has spoken at venues around the globe, and has appeared on a number of TV, podcast and radio programs, including NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross.

She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and their two children. She grew up in Portland, Oregon, and spent her summers with family in Wyoming, where she did not feel so overwhelmed.