Kerry-Anne Mendoza


Kerry-Anne Mendoza is a writer, journalist and social commentator. Mendoza is editor of The Canary, a left-wing new media outlet.

Early life and education

Mendoza was brought up in Kingswood, near Bristol. She was educated at Kingsfield Secondary School, then started a history degree at the University of Sussex. After a fact-finding programme in Israel/Palestine in 2002, in which she witnessed an Israeli attack in the West Bank city of Ramallah, she withdrew from the university course.

Career

Mendoza has been a project manager for high street banks and is "a former management consultant in banking, local government and the NHS, who left her job to join the Occupy protest", according to her Guardian profile.
She co-founded The Canary in 2015, and is its first editor-in-chief. Her first book, Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy, was published in 2015.
She has written under "Scriptonite" on the Scriptonite Daily blog and has been a contributor for major news organisations such as The Guardian, openDemocracy, the New Internationalist and RT UK. Since 2017, she has appeared on the BBC topical debate programmes Question Time and Any Questions?

Personal life

Mendoza co-founded The Canary with her wife, Nancy, who is Jewish. They live in Hambrook, South Gloucestershire.