Brenda Butler is senior features editor for the Chicago Tribune Magazine. She has held numerous editing positions, including assistant arts editor, Style editor, Home editor and associate managing editor for features. Before joining the Tribune, she was production assistant at Jet Magazine. Butler also produced and moderated the 13-week cable TV series exploring topical events, “Playback: Views from an African-American Perspective” with regular panelists Salim Muwakkil, Nalani McClendon and Stan West.

Butler is the current president of the National Association of Black Journalists-Chicago Chapter.