Krista Simmons Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, Ca

Krista Simmons is an Emmy-nominated director, writer, and producer whose clients include Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and Smithsonian. Most recently, she was a director on season 4 of the Emmy Award-Winning docuseries, "The Migrant Kitchen." She is passionate about telling stories highlighting global culinary culture, underground food movements, and women's issues. She is a Film Independent Fellow, a participant in the Sundance Producers Lab, and proud mom to a very sneaky shiba inu named Bento.

Los Angeles, Ca

Writer for the Webby Award-winning City Guides for Conde Nast Traveler, covering hotels, restaurants, road trips, brunches and more for both Los Angeles, Melbourne, and greater Southern California. Coordinates with Conde Nast editorial teams to ideate, pitch, and write content for digital and print publications, as well as sourcing images and assets from brand teams.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

The Fork in the Road podcast explores food, travel, and hospitality at a crossroads. Each week Krista Simmons (Conde Nast Traveler, Top Chef Masters, Modern Luxury) chats with tastemakers and thought leaders over cocktails, sharing inspiring stories and global ideas that you can bring into your own home. We'll talk everything from growing edible gardens to the future of air travel and how to stretch your budget by minimizing food waste, using the hospitality industry's leading voices as our guides.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Monthly restaurant reviews, trend pieces, and opening alerts for Modern Luxury's LA-based publication, Angeleno Magazine. Pieces are often syndicated to the nationwide product. Spearheading and writing the annual Feast Issue, which covers the Los Angeles dining scene from a bird's eye view.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pitching, producing, and shooting viral spotlight videos and series for Tastemade and Tastemade Travel. Planning and overseeing international travel for crew and talent. Managing campaign with tourism boards.

Los Angeles, Ca

Project management of build and design of SimplyWonderful's Tumblr site, including daily content population, reporting monthly stats, developing pomegranate-focussed recipes, and producing POM videos both in studio and on location. The Simply Wonderful Tumblr was recently called out as being an example of Effective Brand Marketing on Tumblr, next to Apple, Gatorade, and Lexus. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/tumblr-marketing-10-examples-effective-brands-right/124194/

Los Angeles, Ca

Creation and management all of culinary content on LAist including chef interviews, purveyor features, beverage and bar coverage, photo galleries, and restaurant reviews. Contributing national restaurant and food industry news stories to parent site, Gothamist, and our affiliates. Promotion of coverage via broadcast segments on the KTLA Morning News, the Queen Latifah Show, and CBS and social media channels.

Los Angeles, Ca

Regularly occurring judge on seasons 1-3, providing culinary criticism and entertainment on Ilan Hall's real world cooking program, "Knife Fight."

Las Vegas, Nv

Regularly appearing judge on Season 4 of "Top Chef Masters" with James Oseland and Ruth Reichl. Additional expert appearances include "Restaurant Express," "Hell's Kitchen," and "Kitchen Nightmares." I contribute regular culinary segments to the KTLA Morning News and Young Hollywood.

Print features and unique online content including hotel, restaurant, and bar coverage from local, national, and international destinations. You can find many of those clips on www.kristasimmons.com.

Managing the print and online publication and its staff, project managing website redesign from Typepad to Wordpress, liaising with design and copy desk teams on print product, fielding pitches, slotting editorial content, creating unique feature stories, hosting and creating unique video content, producing content for print and online use, creating social media strategies for ThisIsBrandX.com

Editing all food/travel/sustainability content, liasing with design and copy desk teams, fielding pitches, slotting editorial content, creating unique feature stories, shooting photographs for assignments, hosting and creating unique video content, producing content for print and online use, utilizing social media to promote ThisIsBrandX.com, ulitizing reverse published content from the LA Times Media Group

Creating editorial content, managing two freelance listings producers, managing restaurant section for the Metromix site via CMS, blogging weekly, photographing stories for the section, making photo assignments, fielding freelance pitches

Los Angeles, Ca

Assisting professional fashion photographers and agents both on and offset, portfolio management and organization, propping, location scouting, travel arrangements, call sheet making, and general office and photo studio duties

Awarded Top Salesperson, leading wine tasting and sales, informing patrons of the viticulture process, key tasting notes, and food pairings

B.A., Psychology

Culinary Arts Professional Program

Professional training from basic knife skills through to the mother sauces, this program provided hands-on, real-world knowledge.

In Humanities, Spanish Language, Art, Latin American Literature, Sociology, And History