Women's History Month Featured Leader: Nellie Bly

In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Today we’re celebrating:

Nellie Bly

Journalist (1867 – 1922)
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• Known for exploits as well as resourcefulness in investigative journalism
• Began a career in journalism in her early twenties after being mostly self-educated
• Gravitated toward subjects like political corruption and perceptions of problems with women working
• Traveled around the world in 72 days in homage to Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”
• Known for her work as an undercover journalist at Blackwell’s Island, a mental institution, where she pretended to be a patient in order to expose the inhumane conditions and practices there
• Also exposed conditions in sweatshops, jails, and other institutions through undercover reporting