Veronica Chambers is the editor leading the archival storytelling team, a new initiative devoted to publishing articles based on photographs recently rediscovered as we digitize millions of images in our archives.
Chambers is a prolific journalist, editor and author.
She has held senior editorial roles at Newsweek, Glamour and Good Housekeeping, among other magazines. As a director of brand development at Hearst, she was part of the executive team that led the relaunch of Good Housekeeping and its website. She went on to Condé Nast, where she developed and introduced Glam Belleza Latina, a quarterly magazine for Glamour’s Latina audience. A year later, she developed and started Women’s Day Latina with Hearst. She was a recent John S. Knight fellow in journalism entrepreneurship and innovation at Stanford University.
Chambers is also a book editor. She recently created the anthology “The Meaning of Michelle,” a collection by 16 writers celebrating the former first lady, and edited the coming “Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.” Chambers has written several books as well, including “Mama’s Girl,” a critically acclaimed memoir, and co-wrote “Yes, Chef” with Marcus Samuelsson and “32 Yolks” with Eric Ripert.
This role is a return to The New York Times for Chambers. Early in her career, she was an editor at The New York Times Magazine, the first black woman with that title. Born in Panama, and raised in Brooklyn, she speaks, reads and writes Spanish, but she is truly fluent in Spanglish. She lives with her husband and daughter in Hoboken, N.J.