Originally from Denver, Sarah now lives and works in Jersey City as VP, Content at LIVESTRONG.com. She’s spent most of her career in digital media focusing on health journalism, and is passionate about providing accurate, trustworthy and easy-to-understand health information to all people. Sarah received her master’s degree in magazine journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and both of her bachelor’s degrees in news/editorial journalism and magazine journalism from the University of Oregon. When she’s not working or mentoring, Sarah’s usually reading or spending time with her husband David and pet cat named Cricket.

Tracy Miller is an editor, writer, and digital strategist living in Jackson Heights, Queens. As a journalist for more than 10 years, she was a staff editor for the New York Daily News and Prevention magazine. Tracy’s combined interests in digital media and health and medical writing led her to the field of healthcare communications. She is currently the Director of Patient Communications and Engagement at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and also helped lead a digital transformation and website strategy at NYU Langone Health. When she’s not busy at work, she’s probably working her way down her never-ending To Be Read list, cycling around the city, or playing street hockey in Tompkins Square Park.

Livia Nelson is the Director of Product Design at Ravelry, the internet’s biggest pattern database and social website for knitters and crocheters. As an undergraduate at UNC-Chapel Hill, she was in the Honors Fiction program and received degrees in English and German. She enjoys writing short stories, rock climbing, volunteering for political campaigns, and knitting. She has been a mentor at Girls Write Now since 2017.

Nikki is a writer, comedian, and Italian based in LA, formerly Brooklyn, and originally from New Jersey—the only three places in TV’s America. Most recently, Nikki won the 2022 Austin TV Festival Pitch Competition with their pilot “Lil Italy” and was selected as an inaugural member of the Climate Comedy Cohort, co-founded by Generation 180 and American University’s Center for Media and Social Impact. Nikki has written TikToks for Barbie (yes, that one), jokes for the Google Assistant (no, the other one), and bits for the only famous Italian-American, Lady Gaga. They have also contributed writing to The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, McSweeneys, Reductress, and the MTV TV and Movie Awards: Unscripted. Nikki has performed at the YaaasFest Comedy Festival, Women in Comedy Festival, Austin Sketch Festival and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where they also taught, wrote, and directed sketch comedy.

Katie Reilly is a reporter for TIME magazine in New York City, where she covers national news and education issues. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in English and political science and learned to love journalism while working at the student newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel.

KATE RILEY (she/her) has been an actor, waiter, bookseller, selectwoman, poll worker, children’s theater director, and SAT tutor. Most recently, she has had the honor of fundraising on behalf of youth, women, families, and arts education in New York City and Los Angeles. A native (and one-term elected official) of Middletown, CT, she has a History degree from Wesleyan University, where she co-founded its first comedy improv troupe. Today, she is half of an amateur songwriting team devoted to Grover the Boston Terrier.

Judy Roland has her own communications firm and works primarily as a ghostwriter for senior business executives and on website creation. In her free time, she enjoys swimming and walking while exploring all our great city has to offer. She lives with her husband and has one son on the left coast and one on the right. Judy dotes on her grand-dog to a ridiculous degree and looks forward to life post-pandemic.

Kathleen Scheiner is a medical editor and horror writer.

Danielle Schlanger is a vice president at Fenton, specializing in political and executive communications and providing strategic counsel to CEOs, clients, and campaigns. Before joining Fenton, Danielle was the New York State deputy communications director on the Mike Bloomberg 2020 campaign. She was previously both a speechwriter and communications strategist at the New York City Economic Development Corporation and began her career as a journalist.

Olivia Jane Smith loves all kinds of stories. In her current job she often writes about what people do all day and what they find meaningful about their work, seeking to inform, engage and inspire a diverse audience of more than 40,000 healthcare workers. She also does some executive writing. Earlier in her career she worked as a theater reviewer at the Gambit Weekly in New Orleans and as an online editor at the New York Daily News.

Jen Straus received a Bachelor of Arts in comparative literature from Barnard College. A former magazine writer and editor, she now works in nonprofit fundraising. Her current fiction and nonfiction writing focuses on disability, ableism and identity. Originally from the Washington, DC suburbs, she lives in Brooklyn and is at work on her first novel.