Claire Lehmann


Claire Lehmann is an Australian journalist and the founding editor of Quillette.

Personal life

Born 18 July 1985, Lehmann is the daughter of a former teacher and a speech pathologist who was raised in Adelaide, South Australia. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology and English from the University of Adelaide with first-class honours in 2010. Lehmann was then a graduate student in psychology, but dropped out after having a child. She is married and has two children. She is the daughter-in-law of the poet Geoffrey Lehmann.

Career

Lehmann founded the online magazine Quillette in October 2015. According to the newspaper The Australian, Lehmann's story about the controversy surrounding Google engineer James Damore precipitated the venture's success.
Lehmann has contributed to publications including The Guardian, Harvard's Kennedy School Review, Tercera Cultura, Scientific American, Rebel Australia, Tablet, and ABC News.
Bari Weiss regards Lehmann as one of the leaders of the so-called "intellectual dark web". The Sydney Morning Herald named Lehmann in their "Ten Aussies who shook the world in tech and media in 2018" citing that her online magazine, Quillette, has "attracted as many as 2 million followers a month, is starting to gain significant traction in tech and libertarian circles in the US".