Brittney McNamara is an award-winning journalist who has covered health, wellness, and body image for more than a decade. She is currently the features director at Teen Vogue, where she leads both the site’s longform content and its incredibly successful identity section. Part of Brittney’s mission at Teen Vogue has been to transform teen magazine body content, ensuring body diversity in photo shoots, coverage of fatness and size inclusivity, and countering the diet-centric ideology pushed by teen publications for decades. As a result, Teen Vogue has set the new industry standard for how we talk to young people about their bodies. Brittney has edited and published multiple series on fatness and body image, edited a column called “Ask a Fat Girl,” written features on the lasting impact of fatphobia, and has become an expert in both understanding and reporting on the reality of being a teen in a larger body in America. During her time at Teen Vogue, Brittney has also been responsible for the site’s much-lauded reproductive health coverage, numerous series on mental and sexual health, and much more. She’s also moderated and participated in health-focused panels, led on-stage conversations with top talent, and was awarded a grant from the Pulitzer Center to pursue reporting on abortion in the wake of Roe v. Wade. This story appears in both Teen Vogue and on the Pulitzer Center’s website.

In 2020, Teen Vogue was awarded the ​​Physicians for Reproductive Health’s 2020 Voices of Change Award for coverage Brittney led. She was chosen as a United Nations Foundation Press Fellow for the International Conference on Family Planning, held in Kigali, Rwanda in November, 2018, and was invited to the White House in 2022 to cover the Biden administration’s actions around Equal Pay Day. In her years of health reporting, Brittney has interviewed celebrities including Jordyn Woods, JoJo Siwa, Evan Rachel Wood, and more. She has also interviewed activists and political figures like Cecile Richards, Aubrey Gordon, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem, and others.

Prior to working at Teen Vogue, Brittney worked at local newspapers in Massachusetts, where she covered local politics, community events, and wrote human interest stories often related to health and wellness. During this time, Brittney won the New England Newspaper and Press Association award for her education reporting, and was chosen to write a nationally syndicated article on how opioid dependency impacts women differently than men. In addition to her work appearing in Teen Vogue, Brittney’s work is widely syndicated across Conde Nast’s network, with bylines in Self, Glamour, Allure, Vogue, and other brands.

Brittney lives in Paxton, Massachusetts with her husband Theo, her son Milo, and her two cats George and Oscar. In her spare time, Brittney enjoys tending to her garden, weaving rugs, sewing, and crocheting.