Graciela Mochkofsky was appointed dean of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in June 2022.
Dean Mochkofsky first joined the Newmark J-School in 2016 to launch the nation’s first bilingual master’s journalism program. Three years later, she began leading the school’s Center for Community Media, where she oversaw a groundbreaking project that in four years helped infuse nearly $50 million of city funds into NYC community media.
In early 2024, a little more than a year into serving as dean, Mochkofsky launched a fundraising campaign to make the school tuition-free by 2027 after securing a $10 million gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
A native of Argentina, Dean Mochkofsky is also an active journalist. She is currently a contributing writer for The New Yorker, authoring a column on Latino and Latin American issues. She has worked as a political correspondent with La Nación in Argentina, as a columnist and blogger for El País in Spain, and as a contributor to publications in Latin America, Europe, and the U.S., including The California Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review.
Dean Mochkofsky is the author of seven books of nonfiction, most of them in Spanish, including, in English, The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land, published in 2022 by Knopf. She serves on the board of Radio Ambulante, Rebuild Local News, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN).
She is a winner of the 2018 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting across Latin America and the Caribbean. In late 2023, City & State magazine named her one of the leaders making her mark on New York City.