AAC&U has appointed Christen Aragoni as academic editor and editor of Liberal Education, the flagship journal of AAC&U.
Aragoni most recently served as an editor and writer for Currents, the membership magazine of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. She covered the alumni relations beat and other topics on advancement in higher education, while also overseeing production. She previously was a senior editor at The American Prospect magazine, where she participated in coverage of the 2012 and 2008 presidential elections, edited pieces on a range of political and cultural issues, and wrote book reviews. She also serves on the alumni committee of Cornell Alumni Magazine.
Aragoni earned her master of fine arts in creative writing from American University, receiving the Myra Sklarew Award for an MFA thesis which demonstrates remarkable originality, for fiction. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Cornell University, graduating magna cum laude in English, with minors in writing and women’s studies.