Julia Boorstin is author of When Women Lead and CNBC’s Senior Media & Tech correspondent. She reports and conducts CEO interviews across CNBC programming, and plays a key role on CNBC’s bicoastal tech-focused program TechCheck. In 2013, she created and launched the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting private companies transforming the economy. She also helped launch CNBC’s “Closing the Gap” initiative, covering people and companies closing diversity gaps. Before joining CNBC, Boorstin was a writer and reporter at Fortune magazine, as well as a contributor to CNN Headline News.