I know, I know… – Joanne C. Gerstner

I’ve been a very bad website girl. When you write and edit all day long for a living, it somehow escapes to continue doing it on a website that’s not paying you for it! 🙂 Content snob!

But things are going incredibly well. I’m doing a lot of work with espnW.com, serving as their News/Opinion editor, blogging daily for the NY Times, and doing a lot of other things for other private and public sources.

Good luck to the students at the University of Detroit Mercy who are graduating – pleasure to have you in Sports Communications this past semester.

I’m back to playing tennis too, just in drills, to get my sea legs back. It’s strange to be back on the court, after all I have been through, with a knee that feels strong. I now need to work on my mental and emotional confidence. Brian the PT and the great people at DMC sports rehab have taken great care of me, putting Humpty Dumpty back together 🙂

Happy spring and get outside!
jcg

The 411…

Joanne C. Gerstner is an award-winning multimedia journalist, author, college professor and Fulbright specialist. She extensively covers, and is an expert, on sports, concussions in sports, the global business of athletics, women in media, and journalism/social media for outlets such as The New York Times, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the BBC, USA Today, ESPN and Detroit News.

She is the co-author of “Back in the Game: Why Concussion Doesn’t Have to End Your Athletic Career”, with Dr. Jeff Kutcher (Oxford University Publishing, 2016), an Amazon No. 1 hot seller on youth sports and concussions. She has also written five children’s books.

In 2019, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer appointed her to the state’s first Women in Sports Task Force. The group served three-years, making recommendations for legislation and other private sector changes in the state to assist girls and women in playing sports, and finding careers in athletics.

Gerstner is a sought-after expert, speaker and panelist, appearing at SXSW Sports, CoSIDA, the University of Michigan, Jacobs Foundation, the American Academy of Neurology’s Concussion conference, the Association for Women in Sports Media, and numerous media appearances (BBC, NPR, etc.)

She is the Brandt Fellow Sports Journalist in Residence at the School of Journalism at Michigan State University, and has won fellowships with Knight-Wallace at the University of Michigan (2012-2013), Jacobs Foundation (2015) and Steve Saler-Medill (1995).

Gerstner is the recipient of Oakland University’s Distinguished Alumni Award (2020); the Association for Women in Sports Media’s Ann Miller Award (2014); Faculty Impact Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University (2017); the inaugural MSU ComArtsSci Brandt Fellowship for Faculty Excellence (2021), and the Headliner Award from the Association for Women in Communications Detroit chapter (2017). She was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 2021.