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United States

New York, United States

New York, United States

I started one5c, an optimistic, action-focused climate publication because I believe that anyone who has any ability to help humanity survive the climate emergency has an obligation to get cracking. My skills are that I can build audiences and tell them compelling stories. With every newsletter, one5c serves up deeply reported pieces that focus on.

New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Hearst brought me in to improve production value, increase collaboration, and help all three brands—Car and Driver, Road & Track, and Autoweek—develop content strategies for a future beyond advertising. I helped turn Road & Track into the centerpiece of a membership program. At Autoweek, we created a new strategy that filled a gap in Hearst Autos'.

New York, NY

My pitch for PopSci was to transform the print product from a 10x periodical into a quarterly keepsake, and shift the bulk of the team’s focus to digital. We did that and more. In addition to creating an ASME-winning magazine (2019), we grew our digital audience by creating stories for underserved readers. Between 2016 and 2017, we doubled web traffic.

San Francisco, CA

In addition to running tech coverage in the magazine, I oversaw WIRED’s digital platforms. When I arrived, WIRED.com was competing with blogs and newspapers for low-value news items. I worked with the staff to focus on unique content instead. The mantra was “ask the smartest question first”—rather than rush to publish the same news that everyone else had..

San Francisco

When I joined Gizmodo, my ambition was to bring magazine-style packaging and journalism to the blogosphere. I saw that audiences were starting to expect the same quality from their daily online publications as they did from their daily newspapers (this was 2010), so we changed the publishing cadence to support high-production-value content. We hired.

Bachelor'S Degree, Literature

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