Leigh Gallagher is an assistant managing editor at Fortune and author of The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions... and Created Plenty of Controversy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, February 2017).
Her first book, The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving (Portfolio, 2013) has been described as "prophetic," "a first-rate social history" and "a steel fist in a velvet glove."
Leigh is a co-chair of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the host of Fortune Live, and a frequent on-air commentator, appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, CNBC, CNN, and public radio's Marketplace. Originally from Media, PA, she lives in New York City.
