Chris Roney

Journalist ○ Humanitarian

Chris Roney is the founder and executive director of Language For Action, a new media nonprofit developing free-to-access tools for connection across difference. Drawing on his years training other journalists in “nothing about us without us,” self-advocacy-laden journalism, his goal is to ease good-faith dialogue and knowledge-building to inspire action toward justice, in journalism and beyond.

Chris is an award-winning journalist, editor, and advocate for human rights. As a working editor of 10 years, he has trained more than 200 editors across the US, UK, and Australia, between Group Nine Media, Vox Media, and Val Morgan Digital properties. He specializes in fact-based, ethics-driven news reporting.

For his work that “anticipates, welcomes, and embraces change“ and for “encouraging smart risks,“ he won a Spark award in 2021. He was also awarded an APEX award of excellence for exceptional interview writing in 2021. His bylines include POPSUGAR, PAPER, InStyle, and HuffPost, among others.

Chris has appeared in The New York Times and given commentary to NPR, MTV, Crooked Media’s “What a Day,” Entrepreneur, and Allure, and Wondermind, among others. He is a 2022-2023 fellow at the Witness Institute, dedicated to the mission of human rights activist, holocaust survivor, and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.