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Emi Nietfeld
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Fertility tech journalist, author of "Acceptance," speaker Words @WIRED @NYMag @nytopinion @theatlantic Story tips: emi at eminietfeld dot com
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Sep 3, 2025
    Surrogate pregnancies are increasingly popular in Silicon Valley, and the practice is expected to explode globally in the coming decade. It’s also shockingly unregulated. 10 months in the making, this is a story about what happens when it goes horribly wrong.
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    Sep 3, 2025
    When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate. wired.com/story/the-baby…
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Dec 31, 2022
    When Yale rejected me early, I believed it was because I said too much about my psychiatric history. I edited mental illness out of my applications and got into Harvard. Guilt ate at me for years; I felt like a liar and a cheater. Now I know I’m not alone.
    Opinion | I Edited Mental Illness Out of My College Applications. I’m Not Alone. (Published 2022)
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Jul 31, 2022
    13 years ago I was homeless, about to spend the final weeks of summer break recovering from surgery on friends' sofas, sleeping in my car, and at a shelter. Today I woke up in my own bed, made pancakes, and saw my book reviewed in the New York Times
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    The Problem With Survivor Memoirs (Published 2022)
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Apr 7, 2021
    I'm so grateful to the @nytopinion for giving me the the chance to write about my love affair with my ex-employer, Google, the harassment I faced there, and how being a "great workplace" can make it even more excruciating to report mistreatment.
    Opinion | After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again (Published 2021)
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Feb 10, 2022
    It’s residency application season! ⏳After getting rejected from dozens (and into a few!) I recently had the chance to judge. Being on the other side of the Submittable taught me a LOT that will change the way I write my apps. 🧵 1. Don’t assume you need to be uber-published
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Aug 2, 2022
    As a teenager, I hated feeling reduced to buzzwords: "homelessness" "foster care" "mental illness." I longed to tell my story in all of its complexity and beauty and humor. Today ACCEPTANCE is finally out in the world, 13 years after gushing all of my plans to this reporter.
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Dec 31, 2022
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    Handling mental health in college apps fairly means recognizing that "the same crisis that leads to an outpouring of support for a wealthy child might cause a foster youth to be sent to a locked facility, prescribed antipsychotics, and forced to transfer schools"
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Jan 27, 2022
    ✨COVER REVEAL✨ Psyched to share the cover of ACCEPTANCE! out 8/2 @penguinpress It's a memoir through foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, about the stories we tell about ourselves to succeed and survive. Oh- and it’s funny! 🙃 Preorder: bit.ly/AcceptanceMemo…
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Aug 8, 2022
    Told all my friends I will have MADE IT when I see my book in an airport Here is ACCEPTANCE at J-F-freaking-K!
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Dec 31, 2022
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    I’ve been working on this essay since 2018. It’s the most important thing I’ve written. I'm beyond awed by the students I interviewed. Thank you for your courage, vulnerability, and stigma-shattering. I'm honored to share your stories. This one is for you.
    Opinion | I Edited Mental Illness Out of My College Applications. I’m Not Alone. (Published 2022)
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Jul 5, 2022
    Thirteen years in the making, four weeks to go
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Aug 1, 2023
    8 years after starting to write Acceptance - it's in paperback! New queer cover, lower price, exhausted author. I hope this book comforts struggling teens, informs well-meaning adults, and scandalizes suburban moms. Please come out and celebrate before I sleep for 2 years!
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Aug 10, 2022
    I learned I got into @Harvard at the public library in Seattle. My screams broke the pin-drop silence. I knew my future would be unimaginable- though I had no idea how 12 years later, at the same terminal @SPLBuzz while celebrating ACCEPTANCE, my book about this crazy dream
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    Emi Nietfeld
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    Nov 5, 2022
    Much of the "quiet quitting" discussion makes my blood boil: Most people are not hustling to self-actualize. They’re hustling to survive. So grateful to @FortuneMagazine and @lestanberry for giving me a chance to reflect:
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    I had to be an overachiever to pull myself out of poverty and land a six-figure tech job. Here's...
    Most people are hustling just to survive.