Elaine Welteroth
Journalist, editor and author
Elaine Welteroth is an American journalist, editor, author and television host who became editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue. She wrote the memoir More Than Enough.
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American Born 1986 in Newark, United States
About Elaine Welteroth
Elaine Welteroth held editorial positions at Ebony and Glamour before moving to Teen Vogue. She became its beauty director in 2012, the first African American to hold that job. She was later promoted to editor-in-chief at age 29. She left the magazine in January 2018. That October she became a judge on Project Runway when the show returned on Bravo. She has also written for the series Grown-ish. Her memoir, More Than Enough, was published by Viking in June 2019. She is a New York Times bestselling author, and the book received an NAACP award in 2020.