Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza (b. 1980) began her career as staff writer at the New York Daily News after receiving a degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, and Slate. Jo has also appeared as a commentator on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR.

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Religion Dispatches

The Sisterhood Episode 2: Crying and Twerking

Episode 2 By The Numbers: Crying Meltdowns: 4 Fights: 1 Bottles of Wine Consumed: 1 Incidents of Twerking: 1 “We’re All Broken,” the title of Episode Two of “The Sisterhood,” reminds me of a poem…

Jo Piazza

December 4, 2014

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Religion Dispatches

Like “The Bachelor,” But for Jesus: “The Sisterhood” Episode 1 Recap

If there were a Venn diagram showing the intersection of expertise of reality television and Catholic nuns, I would be sitting right in the middle of it. In addition to spending the past three years…

Jo Piazza

November 26, 2014

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Religion Dispatches

If Bad-Ass Nuns Ruled the World

What inspired you to write If Nuns Ruled the World? Around 2009 I started spending a lot of time around nuns. I was finishing a thesis for my masters over at NYU and the topic was how Catholic nuns…

Jo Piazza

August 18, 2014

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