Suleika Jaouad Biography – Suleika Jaouad Wiki
Suleika Jaouad is an American journalist, writer, advocate, and motivational speaker. She is the author of the “Life, Interrupted” column in The New York Times and has also written for Vogue, Glamour, NPR’s All Things Considered, and Women’s Health. At the time of her diagnosis with cancer in 2011, doctors said she had only a 35% chance of surviving in the long run. She survived and subsequently writes and speaks extensively about her medical experiences. Her Emmy Award-winning column, “Life, Interrupted” was part of the New York Times Well blog.
In 2010, she graduated from Princeton University where she majored in Near Eastern Studies and double minored in Gender Studies and French. During her time at Princeton, she worked on various human rights campaigns for the Center for Constitutional Rights, Oxfam, and the African Union. She studied abroad in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt where she researched and wrote about women’s issues. She travels around the US teaching writing and wellness workshops and she speaks at high schools, universities, hospitals, corporations, fund-raisers, and professional events.
She has been featured on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, NBC’s Weekend Today, CBS News, The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times, and Darling Magazine, among others. Her TED Talk titled “What almost dying taught me about living” was released in June 2019. She is the author of the bestselling cancer memoir: Between Two Kingdoms (2021).
Suleika Jaouad Age
She was born on July 5, 1988, in New York, New York, United States.
Suleika Jaouad Husband
Jaouad is married to musician Jon Batiste, with whom she has been in a relationship since 2014. In April 2022, the couple revealed in a television interview that they had been secretly married in February 2022, the day before Jaouad was to undergo a bone marrow transplant after she had been diagnosed with leukemia for a second time.
Suleika Jaouad Wedding
She is married to her husband, musician Jon Batiste. In April 2022, the couple revealed in a television interview that they had been secretly married in February 2022, the day before Jaouad was to undergo a bone marrow transplant after she had been diagnosed with leukemia for a second time.
“We got married the day before I was admitted to the hospital to undergo my bone marrow transplant,” she told CBS Sunday Morning. “We have known that we wanted to get married, I think, from the first week that we started dating. That’s when Jon first brought up the topic of marriage to me. So, we’ve had eight years,” Jaouad joked. “This is not, you know, a hasty decision!”
The couple was able to get their marriage license quickly and had a “tiny” and “perfect” wedding, adding that they “used bread ties” instead of formal wedding rings.
Suleika Jaouad Family
She was born in New York the United States. She was born to a Tunisian father and a Swiss mother.
Suleika Jaouad Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @suleikajaouad.
