Anne Stuart

Anne Stuart is a veteran Massachusetts-based writer, editor, instructor, communications professional, and storyteller. Her writing specialties include leadership, management, entrepreneurship, career and workplace issues, and business technologies (including AI). She’s also written about law, the media, the arts, and regional travel, and she especially enjoys doing profiles of people and organizations. 

She has been with MIT since 2014. She’s currently senior editor for special projects at MIT Sloan Management Review; before moving to that role in 2024, she oversaw that publication’s custom-content wing for four years. Previously, she was the communications officer for the MIT’s largest academic unit, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; before that, she was senior editor for custom content at MIT Technology Review. Earlier, she was a senior editorial staffer at national publications such as Inc., CIO, and Harvard Magazine, among others. She began her career as a reporter and editor for several daily newspapers and The Associated Press. 

Anne’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, Newsday, The American Lawyer (and several spinoff legal publications), Harvard Magazine, Northeastern Magazine, American Way (in-flight magazine), Seventeen, and many other print and online publications. As a freelancer, she has written content for other publications and corporate clients and edited or contributed chapters to books on business and history. She is working on a book about conducting journalistic interviews. 

She is an adjunct professor in the graduate communication program at Regis College near Boston. She has also taught communication and journalism courses at Simmons University, Lasell University, Northeastern University, and Emerson College. She has led writing and editing workshops for many other organizations and spoken at many professional conferences.

In her free time, she’s an occasional stand-up storyteller, who has performed live in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Lenox, Massachusetts, and in Hartford, Connecticut. Her stories have been featured on the Moth Radio Hour (PRX/NPR) and Stories From the Stage (PBS). In her free time, she occasionally leads workshops on mindfulness and movement, as well as on mixed-media collage. 

Anne received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English from Michigan State University, a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and, most recently, an executive certificate in management and leadership from MIT Sloan.