Nina Jane Easton (born October 27, 1958) is an American author, journalist, TV commentator, entrepreneur, and film producer. In 2016, she co-founded SellersEaston Media, a private-client storytelling service that chronicles the legacies and impact of leaders in business, public service, and philanthropy. A former senior editor and award-winning columnist for Fortune Magazine, she chaired Fortune Most Powerful Women International, with live events in Asia, Europe, Canada, and the U.S., and she co-chaired the Fortune Global Forum, bringing together top business and government leaders from around the world. At the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), she founded and hosts a live event series on global affairs called "Smart Women Smart Power." She is a frequent political analyst on television and was a 2012 fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Early life Nina Easton was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, the daughter of James Easton, an aerospace engineer, and Janet Easton, a homemaker. She grew up in Rancho Palos Verdes, California and attended Miraleste High School. Her journalism career began at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, where she worked as a copy editor and reporter on the college newspaper and authored a front-page feature story for the Denver Post at age 19. After transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the staff of the Daily Californian, rising from reporter to international page editor and finally to managing editor. In a 2000 C-Span interview Easton stated: "I just started writing for the school paper and it never left my blood." Career Journalism Nina Easton started her career in journalism in 1981 as a writer for Ralph Nader, for whom she co-authored a book on the Reagan Administration. In 1984 she became a staff reporter for the Washington D.C.-based Legal Times. She then wrote for The American Banker and Businessweek before joining the Los Angeles Times as a staff writer, a position she held from 1988 to 1998. Easton's writing for the Los Angeles Times earned her a National Headliner Award in 1994 for best magazine writing and a Sunday Magazine Editors Award for investigative reporting. In 2003, Easton joined The Boston Globe as the deputy bureau chief at the paper's Washington bureau. From 2006 until 2016, she was a senior editor covering politics and economics for Fortune Magazine. In 2014, her Fortune column was honored with a National Headliner Award for magazine commentary. Easton