Edith Meinhart is a freelance journalist and author. From 1998 to 2023, she was an editor at the Austrian news magazine profil. Here she focussed on issues of migration, social inequality and socio-political and human rights topics. Born in Upper Austria, she has received several awards for her social reportage, including the Claus Gatterer Prize in 2012 and the Concordia Prize for Human Rights in 2017.