Since 1999 she has been board chair of BRC, a NYC non-profit that provides housing, medical care, job training and social services to New Yorkers who have become homeless.
While in law school, Salamon was a summer intern at the Pittsburgh Press, and then at The Wall Street Journal, where she was hired as a reporter in the New York bureau (covering commodities and then banking) upon graduation from NYU.
In the summer of 2010, she was a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire,[3] where she completed Wendy and the Lost Boys.
She hosts AT LUNCH a monthly interview program with prominent leaders in the world of culture, literature and politics.
Salamon was for several years a mentor at Girls Write Now, a writing and mentoring program for New York City public high school girls, and--in addition to BRC-- is a board member of the American Jewish Historical Society Salamon is married with two adult children, and lives in downtown Manhattan.