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Lara Ewen has published articles and essays in the New York Times, Business Insider, the Kansas City Star, Newsday, NYC&G, NPR, PBS, Retail Dive, Slate, and Zagat, and American Libraries Magazine, and she is the author of The Girlshop Guide to NYC Shopping (Shecky’s Media). She is formerly the senior editor of Fashion Dive, and worked as the U.S. market report columnist for Rapaport Magazine, editor-in-chief of the U.S. edition of Sportswear International magazine, a freelance digital editorial consultant for Rolling Stone, and a consulting editor at Women’s Wear Daily. She is also the former talent booker for the Free Music Fridays series at the American Folk Art Museum, and has taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She holds a BA from Boston University.
Jessica Ogilvie has published articles and essays in Los Angeles Magazine, Playboy, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Dame, Condé Nast Traveler, LAist, Vice, Good, and the Hairpin, among others, and her work has been anthologized in Little America: Incredible True Stories of Immigrants in America. She has worked as a contributing editor at Playboy, a contributing writer at Los Angeles Magazine, and a section editor at LA Weekly. She has taught for 826LA. She holds a BA from New York University and an MFA from Bennington College.
