| Personal Information Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Jane Coaston |
| Birthday / How old is Jane Coaston Age / Date of Birth / DOB | September 23, 1987. As of 2025, she is around 38 years old. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Spouse / Boyfriend | Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Jane Coaston Mouth | She has a slightly uneven mouth and face. However, it is not known if she had mouth surgery. |
| Children / No. of Kids | None |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | Mixed |
| Nationality | American |
Wikipedia Bio / Profile Background
Introduction :
Jane Coaston is an American journalist. Till November 2020, she was a senior politics reporter at Vox Media and she wrote for MTV. Since November 2020, she has been the Host/Editor of the opinion podcast, “The Argument”, for The New York Times.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Jane Coaston was born on September 23, 1987, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to mixed-race parents Jody Samuels Coaston (mother, a case manager by profession), and Byron Coaston (father, librarian by profession). Byron and Jodi have been married since 1979.
- Jane describes her parents as “Union Democrats who were giant hippies”. Her dad was a black librarian, whereas her mother was white & worked with neglected and abused children.
- Her grandfather served in the only Black U.S. Army unit to land on the Normandy beaches in 1945. Her grandmother, whose childhood home was burned down by the KKK, was one of the first Black ladies to work at the Pentagon.
- Jane has an older sister, Susannah Coaston.
- Growing up in Cincinnati, Jane went to Nativity School then to an all-girls high school, Ursuline Academy, in Blue Ash, Ohio. She graduated from Ursuline Academy in 2005.
- Jane then went on to study at the University of Michigan (UMich) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 2005 to 2009. She studied History and Political Science with a focus on World War Two and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. At UMich, she edited the Michigan Review, a libertarian paper, that was backed by the right-leaning Collegiate Network.
- After growing up in Ohio, Jane lived in St Louis, Missouri, for some time. Currently, she resides in Washington DC with her wife.
Love Life and Relationships :
- In 2013, Jane Coaston met the woman who would become her wife, Jefcoate O’Donnell, a fellow journalist from New Zealand.
- Jane married her partner, Jefcoate O’Donnell on May 2, 2015. Jefcoate identifies himself as queer.
- Jefcoate is a Harvard University graduate with a Degree in Government and Global Health. She later headed to the University of Oxford to secure a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in African Studies.
Work : Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth
- Jane was a staff writer for the St Louis Post-Dispatch from 2009 to 2010.
- She was then an editorial research intern at the Chronicle of Higher Education from 2010 to 2011.
- After that, Jane was a staff editor and writer for Arabella Advisors from 2011 to 2012.
- From 2012 to 2013, she was a media relations coordinator for the Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric AIDS Foundation.
- From 2013 to 2014, Jane was a press secretary for the Environmental Working Group (EWG).
- She was a writer for the Human Rights Campaign from 2014 to 2016.
- From 2016 to 2017, Jane was a political writer for MTV Networks and Logo, primarily covering the 2016 Presidential election.
- From November 2017 to November 2020, Jane was a senior politics reporter for Vox Media. She primarily writes about politics, as well as matters to do with race such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the effects of white nationalism and the conservative right.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Jane was a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics of the University of Chicago in the autumn of 2019.
- She grew up Catholic, and though she struggled with being LGBT and faithful as an adult, she has since started attending church again on her own terms. She frequently goes with her wife.
- In an interview, Coaston mentions that her politics were shaped by the fact that she grew up in a very liberal family in a very conservative region.
- Jane has a dog called Lamb and frequently dogsits for her friends with her wife Jefcoate.
- Although she now lives away from her hometown, she is still very attached to her roots and she frequently travels back to Cincinnati to spend time with her family.
- Her parents, a black man, and a white woman were married twelve years after the Lovings fought to make proscriptions against interracial marriage unconstitutional.
- Jane received the Best Oral Presentation award for her thesis while at the University of Michigan.
She needs to say away from TV and do her podcast (that I will never listen to).
ACCOMPLISHED LADY!