What’s on my mind this month? It’s fall in NYC. It’s getting dark earlier, the leaves are changing, and it’s that awkward dress-in-layers weather: by the time you reach the subway, you’re sweating, but take your coat off and you’re cold. My reading group read Min Jin Lee’s American Hagwon this month. The timing was serendipitous. A season of life transitions has me re-examining the conscious and unconscious beliefs I absorbed moving through elite academic and corporate spaces from an early age. Macrocosmically, the same questions extend to the economic models we’ve inherited: how sustainable are they, and what might better alternatives look like?
I’m exploring these questions in my writing and on Substack this season. I’m also prepping for a course I’ll be teaching at NYU Spring 2027.
Selected Writing
I. Narrative Nonfiction
HYBRID — FICTION / NON-FICTION
II. Cultural Commentary
III. Essay /
Reported Feature
The Power of Breath
Shondaland
IV. Fiction
Debut Novel
In Progress
FORTHCOMING
About
Tiffany Crawford writes like a cultural critic, feels like a mystic, and thinks like an engineer. Her essays and provocations live at the intersection of power structures, wealth, and body intelligence — examining how institutions shape the people inside them, the generational impact, and potential solutions.
She holds an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and a BS from Howard University. After building AI models in health technology and advising Fortune 100 companies at Deloitte, she turned her lens on the human systems technology alone can't redesign. Her work has appeared in HuffPost and Shondaland, and she publishes on her Substack, The Nerve. She is writing her first novel.
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