Alli­son Yarrow is an award- win­ning jour­nal­ist, speak­er, and author of Birth Con­trol and 90s Bitch, a final­ist for the Los Ange­les Press Club book award. She was a Nation­al Mag­a­zine Award Final­ist, a TED res­i­dent, a pro­duc­er at NBC News and Vice, a reporter and edi­tor at Newsweek and The Dai­ly Beast, and her writ­ing and com­men­tary appear in many publications.