Candice the Writer
Candice Helfand-Rogers is an accomplished writer and editor with decades of hands-on experience crafting thought-provoking, mature and timely works for numerous, highly regarded online news organizations. She presently works at The Story Exchange, an award-winning nonprofit newsroom that elevates women’s work, voices and concerns. Prior to that, she was a journalist and manager whose work has been featured on some of the largest news sites in the country, including CBS Local News, The 19th, Forbes and The Star-Ledger. She has successfully delivered in both tense breaking-news situations and months-long reporting processes; writing individual profiles and sweeping social commentaries; crafting hard-news features and relevant op-eds. In recent years, she has delivered sermons and coordinated entire social-justice-minded services at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Journalism & Media Studies (with a minor in Music) at Rutgers University.
Feature Articles:
• The Growing Chorus of Resistance, and The Women Holding the Baton
(also featured on The 19th)
• Experts: Rural Women’s Healthcare Crisis Won’t Be Solved By Robots
• U.S. Education Is Under Attack, a New Battle in a Long War. But Women Are Resisting
• For Women of Color, Myriad Barriers Persist in the Classical Music World
• A Question of Our Time: Why Didn’t You Reply to My Email? :(
• The Trade World’s Big, Sexist Pipeline Problem
• The Fight to Save Black Mothers’ Lives
• The Makers of Ethical Eroticism Say it’s Hot, Real – and Feminist
Profile Pieces:
A Kitchen Serving Up Opportunities to Immigrants and Women of Color •
This Pan-African Nonprofit Helps Girls Finish School – By the Millions •
She Doesn’t Go Looking For Fights – ‘But I Will Never Back Down From One’ •
Building a Cannabis Empire Out of Cuban Grit •
Helping Women Click – and Clink – Away at the Loneliness Epidemic •
This Organization Fights to Get Domestic Workers’ Rights on Ballots and in Bills •
How Artistry Informs This Arizona State Senate Candidate’s Political Action •
Op-Eds:
• The U.S. Men’s Hockey Team Reminds Us How Complicit – and Lame – Men Can Be
• Zohran Mamdani Did Something Men Don’t Do – But They Should
• Cardi B’s New Initiative Will Tackle Breastfeeding Stigmas. Yes, They Persist
• Are You Pregnant And In Pain? Trump Says ‘Tough It Out’
• What 2 Women Learned Breaking Stuff in a Rage Room, As a New Conflict Begins
• White Women: The Government is Using Us to Stoke Hatred (Again). We Must Fight Back
• We’re Forgetting How to Accept – and Love – Fat Bodies
• ‘DEI’ is Not to Blame for What Ails Us – Dumb, Arrogant Men Are
Cultural Commentaries and Obituaries:
Here’s to Catherine O’Hara, Life’s Answer to Bogus Claims That Women Aren’t Funny •
It’s 2026, And The President is Telling Women to Smile – to Shut Them Up •
The Revolution Might, In Fact, Be Televised •
Dr. Sally Ride, the Queer Woman Icon Who Was Never Allowed to Be One •
On Connie Francis, Whose Powerful Voice Reached Far and Wide •
Here’s to Catherine O’Hara, Life’s Answer to Bogus Claims That Women Aren’t Funny •
‘The Artist’s Way,’ and the Limitations We Place on Women’s Imaginations •
Remembering Sinéad O’Connor, Gifted Musician and Strident Activist •
Content Series and Annual Projects:
• Our ‘Ripple Effects’ Gift Guide: 15 Gifts That Give Back
• Our 2025 List of 10 Brilliant Business Ideas by Awesome Women Founders
• Understanding Abortions Through Storytelling
• Why We Need to Focus on Black Women’s Startup Stories
• How Can We Make a Difference? By Running for Office, These Women Say
For more of my work, visit my
author page on The Story Exchange.
To read my op-eds, visit
the Opinion section of our site.
For more personal writing,
