Meet Nina Roth, the Head of Community & Operations at Alma. She shares her career insights and how she unexpectedly landed in the health-tech space. It is through community engagement at tech startups that Roth was able to find her passion.
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Meet Emily DiDonato
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Meet Emily DiDonato, a model based in New York City but constantly traveling on the job. She has witnessed the changing modeling industry with social media, but ultimately she learned how spending time with herself has been the most important experience.
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Meet Dianna Cohen
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Meet Dianna Cohen, the founder of marketing consultancy, Levitate, with clients from Outdoor Voices to Flamingo. After getting her foot in the door in the world of marketing and brands, it was in 2017 that she realized it was time to start her own company where she makes the rules and sets the boundaries.
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Meet Nina Lorez Collins
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Meet Nina Lorez Collins, a writer who never thought she’d be a writer but now also has an accomplished career in publishing. As the daughter of writer and filmmaker Kathleen Collins, she continues to stay creative and inspired by her children.
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Meet Haley Nahman
Meet Haley Nahman, the Deputy Editor of Man Repeller and writer who transitioned into media after working in HR for five years in California. In a fast-paced media industry, she shares how she stays sane and how she acquired her sharp writing and editing skills.
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Meet Lauren Servideo
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Meet Lauren Servideo a comedian known for her quirky Instagram videos where she flaunts original characters and her sharp wit. After starting in a makeup career, she eventually transitioned to being part of the Community Lab team at Instagram.
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Meet Verena von Pfetten
in Editor, Writer, Entrepreneur
Verena von Pfetten is the business owner and co-founder of print publication, Gossamer, which also launched Dusk, a CBD tincture with CBN. She shares her cannabis recommendations and what it’s like to start a new business with a partner.
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Melissa Broder of So Sad Today
in Writer
Many of us came to know Melissa Broder through her Twitter handle, so sad today. Her online musings have often gone viral, for reasons that are obvious if you follow her (the latest tweet as of this writing says “brb, regretting major life decisions”). Her sharply funny and devastatingly relatable quips ultimately paved the way to a book of essays, also called So Sad Today and recommended to us by Passersby Lauren Nostro and Angie Venezia.
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Meet Natalie Guevara
Nat Guevara is the head of multi-platform and communications at Genius, the music media company centered on lyrics and music knowledge. Founder of The Afterglow, a forthcoming valentine to the classic New York City institutions and local haunts that are still with us. Born and raised in the tropics, but partial to cold weather. New Yorker for almost 15 years. Film lover for all her life.
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Meet Lauren Caruso
Lauren is a writer, editor, and digital consultant living in New York City's Lower East Side. She spends her days at the helm of The Zoe Report, where she manages the site's six fantastic editors, and spends her weekends finding new brunch spots, discovering new stores, and searching for white walls to use as a background for the 'gram.
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Jewelry & Accessories Designer Susan Alexandra
in Jeweler
Susan Alexandra is a jewelry and accessories designer based in New York City. Growing her label through genuine relationships and connections, Susan is someone who has turned the phrase “friends of the brand” into a literal business model, favoring honest, intimate exchanges with her customer base over calculated strategy or mass appeal.
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Meet Lyz Olko
in Art Director, Producer
Meet NYC Passerby Lyz Olko, art director, producer, and designer of her own clothing line. Since conquering the creative industries in New York City since moving here, she is looking to study neuropsychology and plan new goals for the future.
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Meet Holly Liss
Meet LA passerby Holly Liss, the founder of ENLISST, a digital creative consultancy that aims to make brands come to life through social media storytelling. She shares her tips for living bicoastally and making both cities feel like home.
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Meet Kavi Moltz
in Entrepreneur
The founder of the Brooklyn-based perfume company, D.S. & Durga, along with her husband David. After a career in architecture, Kavi shares her transition into starting a business and raising her two children in the city.
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Meet Alison Roman
Alison Roman is a chef and writer, whose cookbook Dining In features over 125 recipes that highlight her unique style that has earned her a signature voice at The New York Times.
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Meet Sukey Novogratz
in Writer, Philanthropist
Meet Sukey Novogratz, a philanthropist and writer, who has used meditation as a way to power through life and her career. Along with her sister-in-law Elizabeth Novogratz, Sukey is the co-author of Just Sit, a guide to meditation for beginners.
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Meet Shruti Naik
in Scientist
Meet NYC passerby, Shruti Naik, a scientist who works in immunology and the way bacteria, both good and bad, impacts our bodies. Thankfully, she makes it easy enough for us to understand so that we may treat our bodies with more care, along with others.
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Meet Crystal Moselle
in Filmmaker
Crystal Moselle is a filmmaker best known for her debut, Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary The Wolfpack, as well as her latest feature film Skate Kitchen. With a career defined by the unconventional and powered by social interactions, chance encounters and a dynamic editorial team, her life and travels routinely ask her to challenge her own perspective. Constantly in transit between reality and fantasy, she shares the habits and experiences that have brought her to her present.
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Meet Elizabeth Novogratz
Meet NYC passerby Elizabeth Novogratz, the co-author of "Just Sit: A Meditation Guidebook for People Who Know They Should But Don't.” While meditation is one of her passions, she advocates for animal rights along with an upcoming project, Species Unite.
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Meet Sarah Eaton
in Publicist
Meet NYC passerby Sarah Eaton, the Director of Media and Public Relations at the Guggenheim Museum, who has parlayed her career from the film industry to the museum world. Based on her recommendations, art and film have had an immense influence on her work and creative inspiration.
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