Veronica Chambers is an American author. She is best known for her critically acclaimed memoir, "Mama’s Girl." She has written more than a dozen books for young readers and cowritten New York Times bestselling memoirs with Robin Roberts, Eric Ripert, Senator Cory Booker, and many others.
Background
Veronica Chambers was born in 1970 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, into the family of Cecilia Chambers. Chambers’s parents were divorced. Her father was not supportive of his children; and during one period when Chambers, after fighting with her mother, fled to her father’s apartment, she suffered not only from her father’s indifference but also from an abusive stepmother. At the age of sixteen, however.
Education
Veronica studied at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Massachusetts, where she earned Bachelor of Arts in Literature.
Veronica Chambers deepened her passions for innovation and collaboration while at Stanford. During her fellowship, she took classes at the Graduate School of Business and taught workshops and gave lectures at the GSB, as well as in the fields of narrative nonfiction, gender studies and science writing.
Veronica Chambers is a prolific author, best known for her critically acclaimed memoir, "Mama's Girl" which has been course adopted by hundreds of high schools and colleges throughout the country. The New Yorker called Mama's Girl, "a troubling testament to grit and mother love… one of the finest and most evenhanded in the genre in recent years." Born in Panama and raised in Brooklyn, her work often reflects her Afro-Latina heritage.
She coauthored the award-winning memoir "Yes Chef" with chef Marcus Samuelsson as well as Samuelsson’s young adult memoir "Make It Messy", and has collaborated on four New York Times bestsellers, most recently "32 Yolks", which she cowrote with chef Eric Ripert. Her work has appeared in Vogue and Glamour, among many other publications.
She has been a senior editor at the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, and Glamour. Born in Panama and raised in Brooklyn, she writes often about her Afro-Latina heritage. She speaks, reads, and writes Spanish, but she is truly fluent in Spanglish. She is currently a JSK Knight fellow at Stanford University. She also edited the 2017 collection of essays on Michelle Obama, "The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own."
Veronica is looking forward to jumping into new projects in the year ahead: both in long form journalism and new digital platforms as well as continuing the peer mentoring of helping journalists pivot and find new outlets for their storytelling skills.