Background
Her mother is a Parsi from India and her father is from Haiti.
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Lylah Alphonse
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The eldest of three children, Alphonse attended Princeton Day School.
Career
A graduate of the Staten Island Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, she was recently inducted to the Newhouse School"s Alumni Hall of Fame. She also wrote frequently for their Travel, Food, National & Foreign News, and Living/Arts sections. She has also been Consulting Editor for the Fezana Journal and Managing Editor at Work lieutenant, Mom!.
More recently, she held the position of Senior Editor and Writer for the Y! Shine microsite of Yahoo.com, writing extensively on a variety of topics, particularly women"s issues.
She became the Managing Editor for Special Reports at United States. News & World Report in June 2013, and was promoted to Managing Editor for News a year later. Mississippi Alphonse also has blogs titled The 36-Hour Day blog and Write.
Editorial. Repeat., is the author of "Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr" (), and has contributed articles to Our Times (5th edition, Bedford Books, 1998) and Interactions: A Thematic Reader (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999).
Membership
In 1994, she began working as an editor at The Boston Globe newspaper in Boston, where she eventually became a member of the newspaper"s Sunday magazine staff
