Mary Lisa Gavenas

Mary Lisa Gavenas, author of Color Stories: Behind the Scenes of America’s Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry, was named a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography and has been cited as an expert commentator on the beauty business and female entrepreneurship (CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC-4). A former senior editor at Glamour, InStyle, and Mirabella, and columnist for Elle, she has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, and other national outlets.