She is a fellow at the New America Foundation,[1][2] and was assistant dean in languages and linguistics at Georgetown University.

Fallows grew up in both Minneapolis, Minnesota and Vermilion, Ohio.

[3] Fallows was the assistant dean of languages and linguistics at Georgetown University.

[4] From 2012 to 2017, Fallows and her husband, James Fallows, flew their single-engine plane across America to visit small towns, which was the basis of their latest book, Our Towns (2018).

[6] Fallows and her husband started the Our Towns Civic Foundation in 2021.