Lauren TumasASME NEXT Chair/PresidentAssistant Editor, InStyleLauren_Tumas@instylemag.com, 212.522.5211Lauren is an assistant editor at InStyle, where she reports on feature stories and writes and edits front of the book sections. She was promoted after assisting InStyle’s editor, Ariel Foxman for two and a half years. Her favorite part of the job is red-carpet reporting at events and covering shows at New York Fashion Week. Prior to that she worked as a research assistant at Vanity Fair, where she compiled dossiers for writers, contributed to stories such as The New Establishment and International Best Dressed List, and also wrote a daily blog. Before moving to New York she was an assistant editor for two newspapers in Illinois at 22nd Century Media. She has paid her dues interning for NBC trend reporters and in the fashion closet at Good Housekeeping.
Associate Editor, Glamourjessica_duncan@condenast.com, 212.286.6027Jessica completed editorial internships at The New Yorker and Vogue before beginning her magazine work in earnest as the assistant to Glamour's editor-in-chief, ASME president ex officio Cindi Leive. After two years in Cindi's office, Jessica was promoted to associate editor, focusing her efforts on Glamour's relationships, health and entertainment sections, with a few special projects thrown in for good measure. She has a degree in film production from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and spent most of her formative years as a ballerina. If she weren't working in magazines, Jessica would be...working in magazines. Who is she kidding—this is a darn good gig.
Nina FortunaProgram Coordinator, American Society of Magazine Editorsnfortuna@magazine.org, 212.872.3737Nina is the program coodinator for the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) where she manages the National Magazine Awards, the ASME Best Cover Contest and the coveted Magazine Internship Program. Nina has been an intern at Seventeen magazine and has freelanced for various magazines including Time Out New York and Glamour. She also writes weekly quizzes for gURL.com. A graduate of Northeastern University, she lives in Astoria, Queens, with her high-maintenance dog Penny Lane, and pretends the sound of the subway is really the sound of waves crashing on the beach.
Allie HaakeExecutive Assistant to the President of Hearst Magazinesahaake@hearst.com, 212.649.2534Allie is the executive assistant to the President of Hearst Magazines. Most recently, she was the assistant to the editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics. She planned and facilitated events and special projects for the magazine and wrote and edited science, technology, engineering and automotive content for print, web and iPad editions. In her free time, she writes for HarpersBazaar.com and indulges her passions for music, art and fashion in New York City. Allie has a BA in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where she was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper.
Daniela JelaskaAssistant to the Editor-in-Chief, MoreDaniela.Jelaska@meredith.com, 212.499.1752Daniela got her start in magazines back in elementary school. Before she understood what copyright infringement was, she cut and pasted from the pages of Jane, Seventeen and her dad's old issues of National Geographic to make her own kid 'zine. (It has since folded.) She went on to graduate from Boston University with a degree in journalism, dabbling in both print and broadcast along the way. SInce then she's interned at Cosmopolitan and held various freelance gigs at the likes of mediabistro and marthastewart.com.
Lorelei MarfilEditorial Freelancerlorelei.marfil@gmail.comLorelei Marfil is a London-based freelance writer and editor. She has written for various publications and websites including WWD, Harper's BAZAAR, Glamour, Brides and Interview. She has held editorial roles at InStyle, Lucky and Cargo.
Danielle McNallyAssociate Fitness Editor, SHAPEdmcnally@shape.com, 646.935.6935Danielle McNally is the Associate Fitness Editor at SHAPE magazine, where she combines her love for exercise and personal health with her passion for writing and editing. Each month, she oversees the Get Fit News section, as well as the glossy's travel and pop culture coverage, and—to keep her on her toes—the occasional feature-length piece. Prior to SHAPE, Danielle was an editorial assistant at Food Network Magazine, where she was proud to be part of the magazine's highly successful launch before being promoted to assistant editor. Danielle got that first job thanks in large part to her ASME internship with Food & Wine, which taught her the ins and outs of a major national magazine. She has degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Miami. While there she started her own student magazine called, appropriately, Distraction.
Seth PlattnerAssistant Editor/Men's Market Editor, ELLEsplattner@hearst.comSeth has been a mainstay on the ELLE masthead for the past four and a half years, having started his tenure as the assistant to the Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers. While still assisting Robbie, Seth is also an assistant editor and the menswear editor for ELLE's fashion department, meaning on any given day he could be editing Susan Miller's horoscope column, writing/researching for ELLE's pop culture section, or calling in racks of clothing for a photo shoot with, say, Justin Timberlake (see August 2011's issue). Before ELLE, Seth worked as a freelance editor for a motivational speaker in Denver, Colorado, and in college at NYU he was a bustling intern in the script department at Saturday Night Live.
Eric SullivanAssistant to the Editor-in-Chief, GQeric_sullivan@condenast.com, 212.286.6760In his brief editorial career, Eric has served as a writer and fact checker for a handful of publications. He started off covering the local art scene for the Metro Philadelphia, followed by a stint in the Ben Bagdikian Fellowship Program at Mother Jones in San Francisco. He currently serves as assistant to GQ editor-in-chief Jim Nelson and writes for both the magazine and gq.com. You can find him most times at his desk drooling over the first issue of Lucky Peach.
Devin TombAssociate Editor, Seventeendtomb@hearst.com; 212.649.3132Devin Tomb is an associate editor at Seventeen, and, according to her, she has the best beat ever—guys! Previously, she interned at CosmoGirl and O, The Oprah Magazine before spending two crazy fun years as an editorial assistant at Glamour, eventually covering food, home, work and money. She is a proud alumna of Penn State, where, like fellow board member Arianna Davis, she edited the university's college magazine, Valley. Left unattended, Devin can often be found running through Central Park . . . or baking blueberry muffins if it's raining.
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