On Air Artist Spotlight: Liza Donnelly

On this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast episode, we welcome local writer and cartoonist, Liza Donnelly.

Liza Donnelly is a writer and cartoonist for The New Yorker Magazine and is a contributor to CBS News, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Donnelly’s TED talk was translated into 42 languages and viewed over 1.5 million times. The innovator of digital visual journalism called live drawing, she was the first cartoonist to be granted access on location to live draw the Academy Awards.

Donnelly is the author/editor of eighteen books, most notably Very Funny Ladies, a history of women cartoonists of The New Yorker She was a Visiting Scholar at Vassar College, a Distinguished Athena Leadership Fellow at Barnard College, a recipient of an honorary PhD from University of Connecticut.

Donnelly is the producer and director of WOMEN LAUGHING, a documentary that premiered in 2025 and will be streamed on newyorker.com in the fall of 2026.