School is nigh! – Joanne C. Gerstner

Yes children, I feel your pain. School is starting soon, for some, even today! I am eagerly waiting for Target to change out their “Under Pressure” recorder-driven commercials for Christmas ads, like in September 🙂

It has been a good summer, a crazy summer filled with a lot of stuff. Always grateful for family, friends, good health and good times. That’s all that matters. The rest…just details that we worry about and then have to let go. I have tried to adopt the theory of, will this matter in 5 years? More often than not, it will not.

A year ago, I was moving to Ann Arbor to begin life as a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan. This year, happy to stay in one place and not disrupt life like that again for such a fleeting and narrow thing. Living out of boxes with one saute pan is an adventure that best crossed off the bucket list. Done. Thanks.

Anyways, here is some of my recent work:

In the New York Times.

On teamusa.org.

Have a fun start back to school! It’s all good.

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.