Adriana Lacy is an award-winning journalist and consultant in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the founder and president of Adriana Lacy Consulting, a full service digital consulting firm helping publishers and businesses grow their digital audiences. She is also an adjunct lecturer in the journalism department at Brandeis University. Adriana is also a 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. In addition, Adriana is the founder of Journalism Mentors, a website dedicated to advancing early-career journalists through mentoring and paid media opportunities. She also writes a newsletter called The Intersection, which focuses on the intersections of journalism, tech, and product. Previously she worked as a senior associate for audience & growth at Axios, an audience engagement editor at the Los Angeles Times, and a senior news assistant at the New York Times, and was an adjunct lecturer in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. She earned two bachelors degrees from Penn State University in African American Studies and Journalism, and a master’s of science in Digital audience Strategy with distinction at Arizona State University.