Frances Stead Sellers is a journalist and moderator who serves as Associate Editor[1] of The Washington Post where she is a frequent host of the newsroom's live platform, Washington Post Live.[2]
Life and career
Sellers’ career as a reporter, editor and moderator has ranged from politics to the arts and sciences. In recent years, as the newsroom's senior writer[3] she has written extensively about the coronavirus pandemic[4][5] and the country’s political polarization and cultural upheaval.[6][7]
Sellers is a regular host of Washington Post Live, where she launched the Explaining America series[8] and has interviewed key figures in the contemporary political and cultural conversations.[9][10][11] The Disability in American series that she hosted won a 2022 Telly Award for diversity and inclusion.[12]
Sellers has been a senior editor[14] in charge of several sections of The Washington Post, including Health and Science and the signature daily section, Style, which focuses on political profiles, personalities, arts and ideas.
Sellers is often called upon to explain U.S. current events to British audiences on BBC Radio 4's current affairs programming. She has appeared as a commentator on BBC World News[15] and MSNBC's Morning Joe[16][17][18][19] and interviewed prominent figures in the arts, sciences and politics.[20][21] She is a moderator for idea festivals[22] and academic conferences.[23] Since 2022, Sellers has led the Future Trends Forum for the BankInter Innovation Foundation, convening two-day gatherings in Madrid on topics ranging from Building a Net Zero World[24] to the Future of Computing.[25]
Sellers joined The Post from Civilization, the bi-monthly magazine of the Library of Congress. She was a member of the launch team, and led the magazine to a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in its first year of publication.[citation needed] Sellers started her career at Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
