I’ve loved magazines since I was 12 years old and flipped through my first issues of Teen, YM and Sassy. I’ve since worked at award-winning lifestyle, health and fitness, and city magazines. And all these years later, after editing more than 150 issues and thousands of pages — putting together a magazine still strikes me as a little bit of magic; taking an intangible idea and then months later holding a physical repository of your thoughts and work is its own kind of alchemy. And in a digital world, my versatile print strengths of finding and telling compelling stories, developing relationships with expert sources and freelance writers, and collaborating with an editorial team set me up for success.