Julie Scelfo Author

Julie Scelfo is a Fall 2018 TED Resident in New York City, and a former staff writer/current contributor to The New York Times, where she wrote stories about society and human behavior. She has written about transgender pronouns; the intersection of campus suicides with social media and perfectionism; the human health risks from synthetic chemicals in consumer products; homelessness; and how the collapse of Lehman Brothers led to "trickle-down home economics"-thousands of domestics and other low-wage laborers losing their jobs.