Nancy Kaffer is the Editorial Page Editor of the Detroit Free Press. A national award-winning columnist, she writes about politics, policy and the complicated relationship between the two, from Detroit’s historic municipal bankruptcy to the backlog of untested sexual assault kits in Detroit to the Flint water crisis.
Kaffer oversees the publication of commentary and letters to the editor, pens columns, and contributes to unsigned editorials. Before joining the Free Press in 2012, she was a staff writer for Crain’s Detroit Business, covering the city of Detroit. She has also worked at publications, including the Dearborn Press & Guide and the Hattiesburg (Mississippi) American, covering K-12 education and post-Katrina recovery in Mississippi’s Pine Belt.