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Davey Alba is a staff writer at WIRED, covering the business beat. Before joining WIRED she was senior associate editor at Popular Mechanics. Alba previously worked at Gizmodo, IEEE Spectrum, and Laptop Magazine. She has a master’s degree in science journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in communication arts from De La Salle University. She lives in San Francisco.

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Anna Alexander is the director of photography at WIRED. She’s been producing photo shoots and wrangling WIRED photographers for over 15 years. She recently took a two-year hiatus from WIRED to serve as photo director at Dwell Media. Alexander has a BFA in photography from the University of Arizona. She resides in Novato with her husband and two children.

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Sam Baldwin is the product manager at WIRED, where he works closely with the engineering, design, and editorial teams to build digital products that delight readers and generate revenue. Before that, he was the online editor of Mother Jones magazine. He is a graduate of Pomona College and lives in Oakland.

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Ashley Banks is an account director at WIRED, handling integrated sales for consumer electronics, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical, innovation, and gaming accounts in the New York office. Before joining WIRED she served as account director at Say Media, where she was named 2013 Salesperson of the Year, and was as an account executive at CBS Interactive. Banks graduated from Vanderbilt with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She currently lives in Manhattan with her husband.

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Chris Becker is head of IT.

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Michael Calore is a senior editor at WIRED overseeing all consumer product coverage. He was previously an editor and general assignment reporter on WIRED’s news desk, covering software, the social web, and Internet culture. Before joining WIRED, Calore worked as a print designer, a technical writer, a music writer, and as a journalist in the skate and surf industries. He attended the University of Vermont and now lives in San Francisco.

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Chad Carr is the international luxury director at WIRED overseeing the luxury fashion, watch, and beauty accounts. Before joining WIRED, Chad was at Time Inc. in the corporate department handling the luxury category. Previous to that he was at Say Media, an all-digital advertising company. Chad oversaw the luxury market at Vogue, Vanity Fair, Self, and Harper’s Bazaar. He graduated from Baruch College and currently splits his time between Manhattan and Connecticut where he is surrounded by 13 golden retrievers.

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Robert Capps is head of editorial at WIRED, where he oversees editorial content on all platforms, including the magazine, WIRED.com, and live events. In his career at WIRED, he has served as deputy editor, articles editor, director of editorial projects, and products editor. Before that he was editor in chief of MacAddict magazine. Capps holds degrees from Stanford and San Francisco State University. He lives in Marin County, California.

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Tim Carroll is the Midwest sales director at WIRED. He previously served as VP of sales at Say Media for the West, Midwest, and Southeast regions. Before that, he was the Midwest VP of digital sales at Viacom and founded the Midwest digital sales office for E! Entertainment. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and now lives in Chicago with his wife and two sons.

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Ambika Castle is a technical designer at WIRED, building custom feature stories for WIRED.com. She made her first website when she was 12 years old but took a brief detour from web development to receive her JD from UC Hastings College of the Law. Before joining WIRED she was digital media manager at Honolulu magazine. She currently resides in Oakland with her husband, dog, and cat.

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Dellea Chew is Project Manager for the video department and for editorial events at WIRED, with a focus on producing WIRED by Design, the live magazine experience. Prior to WIRED, she has managed projects and clients within advertising and design firms, such as fuseproject. She received a master’s degree from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Davis. She currently resides in San Francisco.

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Benjamin Chirlin is an engineer at WIRED, helping develop and maintain the brand’s website and other digital products. Previously he was a senior developer at The Mechanism in New York City. Chirlin received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently resides in the Bay Area.

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Myrna Chiu is a production manager for the digital and print editions of WIRED. She previously worked as a designer and production artist at a number of weeklies, prepress houses, and printers in San Francisco and New York City. Chiu has a bachelor’s degree in art from the State University of New York at Binghamton and studied architectural drafting and CAD in Honolulu. She lives in San Francisco.

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Paula Chowles leads the video team at WIRED. Her journalism career began on the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, as television reporter. She was then promoted as the parliamentary correspondent for the eNews Channel Africa, South Africa’s leading broadcast news channel. Paula also was the executive producer of a weekly debate show for eNCA. During her nine-year journalism career in South Africa she won several journalism awards for stories on human rights, health, politics, and general news. With a burning desire to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution, Paula packed her bags and headed for San Francisco in 2015.

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Stephanie Clement joined WIRED in July 2013 as the Detroit account director. She previously served as Detroit account director for Esquire and Marie Claire and before that was an integrated account manager at The Atlantic and an advertising manager at Cadillac. Clement has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. She currently lives in Detroit with her husband and son.

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Chris Cona is associate integrated marketing director at WIRED, developing custom content and brand partnerships across all platforms. Before joining WIRED he spent time in fashion marketing, then joined the founding team of the Daily Beast to work through its merger with Newsweek. Cona graduated from New York University and lives in Queens.

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Francesca Cristiani is associate director of WIRED Brand Lab, where she’s responsible for the ideation and execution of innovative, cross-platform programs. She previously served as a marketing manager at USA Today Sports and before that was a publishing activation planner at MediaVest on the Coca-Cola team. Cristiani graduated from Marist College. Originally from New Jersey, she resides in New York City with her husband.

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Alex Davies is a senior associate editor at WIRED, overseeing coverage of all things transportation. He was previously a reporter for Business Insider in New York and a contributor to TreeHugger and Discovery. Davies earned his bachelor’s in history from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Originally from New York, he now lives in San Francisco.

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Katelyn Davies is the editorial business manager at WIRED and manages the editorial budget and contracts for WIRED.com, as well as other aspects of the overall WIRED budget and content reuse requests. She was previously an associate on the San Francisco ad sales team. Before joining WIRED, Davies worked in advertising at Vacation Publications in Houston. She has a BA in communication from Trinity University and currently resides in San Francisco.

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Jay Dayrit is the editorial operations manager of WIRED, overseeing the production of content for both print and digital editions. Before joining WIRED he was a project manager at FCB Global. Dayrit has a bachelor’s degree in theatre studies from Yale and a master’s degree in English from San Francisco State University. Originally from Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia, he currently lives in San Francisco.

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Matt Deane is a digital sales planner at WIRED, working closely with the sales team to develop and manage digital campaigns from the RFP stage through to completion. Prior to joining the WIRED team, Matt worked as an account manager at a video ad network startup, Wahwah Networks. Matt received a bachelor’s degree from Fairfield University and currently resides in New York City.

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Giovanni Dorin is Northwest senior account manager at WIRED, working with partners and ad agencies in San Francisco and Oregon. He recently returned to WIRED, where he spent his first years in advertising, after working as Northwest account manager at Spotify. Dorin graduated from the University of California Davis and lives in San Francisco.

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Maya Draisin is the associate publisher and head of marketing at WIRED, overseeing the development of programs and ideas that drive revenue for the brand. She previously served as WIRED’s promotions director, special projects director, and brand and strategy director. Before joining WIRED, Draisin cofounded the Webby Awards and its judging body, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. She has a BA in history from San Francisco State University. She moved to New York four years ago and now lives in Manhattan with her husband and two sons.

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Emily Dreyfuss edits WIRED’s Opinion section and assigns news coverage on the East Coast. She also writes about technology, culture, and the intersection of the two. Before joining WIRED she was the programming managing editor at CNET, where she also hosted a rumor-focused web series.

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Brian Dustrud is copy chief at WIRED. His previous work includes stints as a reporter, copy editor, and page designer at a variety of publications, including The Industry Standard, Business 2.0, and The Eugene Register-Guard. He is a graduate of Arizona State University and resides in San Francisco.

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As WIRED’s senior editor, digital editions, Jon J. Eilenberg is responsible for the mobile version of the magazine. He also top edits our Gadget Lab gear section and assigns and edits other stories throughout the magazine, including What’s Inside and Chartgeist. Before joining WIRED in 2003, Eilenberg was the copy chief at Red Herring. He graduated from Rutgers University and now lives in Oakland with his wife and twin children.

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Sarah Fallon is a senior editor at WIRED, where she edits short front-of-book items and longer essays, wrangles packages, and commissions features. Before joining WIRED, she was the managing editor of Edutopia magazine, and before that, she was the managing editor of Red Herring. Fallon has a degree in English from Pomona College, and she currently lives in Alameda with her husband and two sons.

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Sean Patrick Farrell is a senior video producer at WIRED. Previously he was a staff video journalist for The New York Times in San Francisco and New York City where he produced, shot, and edited videos for every section of the paper, wrote features and contributed photographs. He has a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Washington and a Master of Journalism degree from UC Berkeley. Prior to journalism he spent a decade working as a bicycle mechanic. He lives in Oakland with his family.

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Gaia Filicori is associate director of communications at WIRED, managing internal and external communications for the brand. Before joining WIRED, Gaia led communications for Condé Nast Traveler, Bon Appétit, and Gourmet, and worked on the independent feature film Beasts of the Southern Wild. Gaia has a BA in human rights and international relations from Bard College. She currently resides in San Francisco.

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Allie Fisher is a senior art director at WIRED, working on the magazine and tablet edition. Before joining WIRED, she was a designer at the Condé Nast Editorial Development Group. Fisher received a Bachelor of Arts in English at Columbia University. She currently lives in San Francisco.

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Ali Foresi is an account manager at WIRED, where she began as a sales associate. Before joining WIRED, she was a teacher in New Jersey public and New York City private schools. Ali received a bachelor’s degree in Italian studies from Trinity College. She currently resides in New York City with her husband.

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Jenna Garrett is the editor for WIRED Photo. Before joining WIRED, she was an editor for the Brooklyn photo site Feature Shoot. She received a master’s degree in fine art photography from the London College of Communication and currently lives in San Francisco.

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Rob Gearity is an integrated marketing manager at WIRED, where he ideates and executes cross-platform programs for key advertisers. He previously worked at the Hearst Men’s Group as a marketing manager and, previous to that, was a branded content marketing manager at Complex Media. He received a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and classics from Williams College. A New Jersey native, Rob now resides in New York City.

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Ruby Goldberg is the photo researcher for the print and web sections at WIRED. She graduated from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, with a bachelor’s degree in international affairs. She currently resides in her hometown San Francisco.

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Robbie Gonzalez is a senior associate editor at WIRED, where he oversees design coverage in print and online. Before joining WIRED, he was a science editor and reporter at io9 and Gizmodo. Robbie holds bachelor’s degrees in biochemistry and molecular biophysics, molecular and cellular biology, and English from the University of Arizona. Originally from Tucson, he now resides in Berkeley.

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Piper Goodspeed is a senior director, integrated partnerships, at WIRED, overseeing spirits, entertainment, travel, and home categories. Before joining WIRED, she served as executive director, corporate partnerships, in the Condé Nast Media Group. Goodspeed received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arkansas. She currently lives in Montclair with her husband and daughters.

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Senior editor John Gravois assigns and edits long-form features. Previously he was the deputy editor of Pacific Standard magazine and an editor at the Washington Monthly. He has also been a reporter at newspapers in Abu Dhabi and Cambodia. His 2014 feature A Toast Story was anthologized in that year’s Best Business Writing and Best Food Writing and became a segment on This American Life. He lives in Albany, California, with his wife and two daughters.

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Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED, covering security, privacy, information freedom, and hacker culture. He’s the author of the book This Machine Kills Secrets, about WikiLeaks, cryptography, and the cypherpunks, which was selected as an Editor’s Choice by The New York Times Book Review in 2012. Before coming to WIRED, he worked as a senior reporter for Forbes magazine. Greenberg received his bachelor’s degree from Haverford College and a master’s degree from New York University’s Business and Economic Reporting program. He lives in Brooklyn.

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For over 14 years, Douglas Grinspan has held roles focused on cross-platform digital strategy, innovation, and revenue generation, most recently with Say Media as vice president of US sales and strategic partnerships. In his current position as the head of revenue for WIRED and Ars Technica, he oversees sales and business development for two of Condé Nast’s most innovative brands. Grinspan graduated summa cum laude from Emory University. He recently moved to New Jersey with his wife and two boys.

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Arthur Guiling is the office manager, managing the office and recently overseeing the new WIRED office renovation. Before joining WIRED, he worked for various San Francisco municipal transportation agencies. Previously, he worked at Purcell Murray managing the tech office and acting as customer service liaison. He currently resides in San Francisco.

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Dave Hady is the southeast director at WIRED, overseeing advertising sales across all platforms in Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, the Caribbean, and South America. Hady began his career in the media department of BBDO. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Lehigh University. Hady lives in Georgia with his wife and children.

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David Herscher is a desktop engineer at WIRED. Before coming to WIRED, he worked at Condé Nast in Wilmington, Delaware. He currently resides in San Francisco.

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Harrison Hill is an analyst, digital sales planning at WIRED, overseeing campaigns across desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms to optimize digital revenue. Hill received a Bachelor of Arts in technology marketing from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. He currently lives in Brooklyn.

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Erica Jewell is a deputy managing editor at WIRED overseeing various business aspects of the print and digital editions. She has previously served as the assistant managing editor and business manager at WIRED, as well as working in the design department. Jewell received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington. She currently resides in San Francisco.

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Jason Kehe is an associate editor at WIRED, focusing on front-of-book stories and essays. Before joining WIRED, he was a freelance journalist and arts critic. Kehe received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California. He currently resides in San Francisco.

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Junho Kim is an associate video producer at WIRED. Before WIRED, he served as a media producer for the Center of Documentary Studies at Duke. Previously he acted as a video specialist at Samy’s Camera. Kim has worked with acclaimed artists such as Shen Wei, Mark Izu, Brenda Wong Aoki, and Emiko Omori. His cinematography has screened at several film festivals and continues to tour nationwide. Kim received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University. He currently resides in San Francisco.

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Kate Kirkland is the associate integrated marketing director and editorial liaison at WIRED. She previously worked in marketing for National Geographic Magazine before joining WIRED as a senior integrated marketing manager. She began her career as a sales associate and then marketing coordinator for The New Yorker. Kirkland received a degree of arts from Lawrence University. A native of Minnesota, she spent seven years living in New York City before moving to San Francisco for WIRED in March 2015.

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Heather Kirkpatrick is a digital sales planner at WIRED, managing ad campaigns on WIRED.com and Ars Technica. In her previous career she was a book marketing manager at Penguin Random House and The Monacelli Press. Kirkpatrick holds a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Pepperdine University. She currently lives in Manhattan.

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Kelsey Kirsch is senior director of media innovations at WIRED, overseeing a variety of categories and cultivating unique brand partnerships. Kelsey enjoyed a 13-year career at Condé Nast, focusing on sales development, at brands ranging from Vogue to GQ before leaving Condé Nast for 3 years to work at two separate digital startups prior to coming back to Condé Nast and joining the team at WIRED in July 2015. Kelsey received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin. She currently lives in Tribeca.

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Victor Krummenacher is the managing art director at WIRED, where he designs editorial content for print and digital and helps coordinate the design team. Previously he was a longtime contributing designer. A California native, Krummenacher attended the University of California at Santa Cruz. Outside of WIRED, he is a musician known for being a cofounder and longtime member of alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven. He lives in San Francisco.

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Kayla LaCour is an associate video producer at WIRED. Before WIRED, she was at BAYCAT where she worked on a video series to highlight the way organizations in San Francisco’s Bayview District use community spaces. Kayla received her BA from the University of San Francisco and currently resides in San Francisco’s Panhandle neighborhood.

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Rosey Lakos is the Director, Creative Operations at WIRED. She is the administrative maven for the art department, manages the photo studio, and contributes as a photo editor. Prior to working at WIRED, Lakos worked as an executive assistant to fine art photographer Todd Hido and was the proprietor of a traveling novelty photo booth. She has a BFA in photography from California College of the Arts and currently resides in Oakland with her cat, Sir Kingsley Zissou.

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Issie Lapowsky is a senior writer for WIRED, covering the intersection of tech, politics, and national affairs. Prior to joining WIRED, Lapowsky covered startups and small business as a staff writer for Inc. magazine, and before that she worked for the New York Daily News. Lapowsky received a bachelor’s degree from New York University. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

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Timothy Lesle is a contributing research editor. He works in print, audio, photo, and documentary/online video, and has published in outlets including WIRED, Frontline/World, California Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. He has a master’s degree from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College. He currently resides in San Francisco.

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Chelsea Leu is a contributing research editor at WIRED and also writes for the magazine and WIRED.com. Before joining WIRED, she worked for UC Berkeley and the Sierra Club. She has a bachelor’s degree in geophysical science from the University of Chicago, and she currently resides in Berkeley.

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Stefanie Lindenbaum is an advertising sales associate at WIRED. Before joining WIRED, she worked at Socialfly, a social media marketing agency, as an account manager. Lindenbaum attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She currently resides in New York City.

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Maria Lokke is a photo editor at WIRED. Previously she worked as a photo editor at MSNBC and The New Yorker. Lokke received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Barnard College of Columbia University. She currently lives in San Francisco.

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Julian Lowin is the Southwest sales director at WIRED, responsible for cross-platform advertising for the brand. Lowin has worked in the publishing business for 25 years on such brands as US News, NY Daily News, Fast Company, Red Herring, THE WEEK, and The Atlantic. Lowin received his Bachelor of Science degree from California State University. He currently resides in Austin with his wife and two sons.

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Mark Majdanski is an art director at WIRED, overseeing all art and design for WIRED promotional materials, events, and advertiser activations. Before joining WIRED he served as the associate art director at Meredith. Majdanski received a bachelor of fine arts degree from East Carolina University.

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Layla Mandella is a front-end developer at WIRED, developing and maintaining the brand’s website. Before joining WIRED, she designed and built websites at Leone Advertising, a boutique search-based advertising agency. Mandella received a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Jose State University. She currently resides in San Francisco.

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Isabel Marx is a premium market manager at WIRED, working closely with the sales planners to optimize digital revenue, organize campaigns, and oversee ad delivery. In the summer of 2013, she interned at The New Yorker in integrated marketing. Marx received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Connecticut College. She currently resides in New Jersey.

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Meghan McCarthy is the advertising sales associate for Los Angeles and the Southwest territory at WIRED. Before joining WIRED, she worked at Yelp in Scottsdale, Arizona. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Arizona State University. McCarthy currently resides in Los Angeles.

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Katie McNally is the events coordinator at WIRED, responsible for working on sponsored and signature events. Previously, she worked in the Condé Nast Detroit office as a sales associate, supporting the domestic automotive account directors for WIRED and W. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and now resides in New York City.

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Stephen McGarrigle is the technical project manager for WIRED.com. Before joining WIRED he was technical project manager for Razoo.com and has held similar positions at Barnes & Noble and Tactel US. Prior to that he was senior web manager/producer for PGP.com. McGarrigle received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dublin City University. He currently resides in San Francisco.

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Ryan Meith is the production manager in publishing at WIRED. His responsibilities for the print edition include overseeing image color correction, generating print-ready files from InDesign, and conversion of the print edition to our tablet build. Prior to joining WIRED he was the production coordinator at Future Publishing. Meith received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University Chico. He currently resides in Alameda with his wife and two boys.

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Cade Metz oversees WIRED’s business coverage on the web. He edits and writes for both WIRED Business, a look at the latest ideas at the forefront of the business world, and WIRED Enterprise, a look at the people, companies, and technologies driving that world behind the scenes. Prior to WIRED, he oversaw US coverage for the London-based The Register, one of the world’s largest science and technology news sites.

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Nurie Kalí Mohamed is the post production supervisor at WIRED, helping to develop the voice of video for the last four years. Prior to WIRED, she freelanced as a content moderator at AdBrite. Mohamed attended Academy of Art University, majoring in the Web Design & New Media program. She currently resides in Oakland.

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David Moretti is the creative director at WIRED. Before moving to San Francisco, he served as the creative director of WIRED Italia from its launch in 2009. He and his Milan-based team went on to win numerous design awards, including prizes from the Society of Publication Designers, the Type Directors Club, and the Art Directors Club. Prior to WIRED, Moretti held senior design roles at several top Italian magazines, including creative director of Rolling Stone Italia.

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Tim Moynihan covers hardware for Gadget Lab, with a concentration on cameras, TVs, Ultra HD video, virtual reality, and the weirdest things he can find. You may know him as the 2014 WIRED Smartphone Thunderdome World Champion. Moynihan has 17 years of tech journalism experience, serving as senior editor at PCWorld, homepage editor at CNET, and an online producer at TechTV prior to joining WIRED. He attended the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri–Columbia. He currently lives in New York City.

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Beth Murphy is senior director of strategic partnerships at WIRED, handling all advertising partnerships based out of Los Angeles and the Southwest territory. She has been with WIRED since 2006, when she began her career as a sales associate. Previous to WIRED, Murphy spent time living in France and West Africa, and prior to that she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame. She currently resides in Santa Monica.

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Blanca Myers is an assistant research editor at WIRED. Prior to joining the research desk, Myers worked as the associate to WIRED’s editor in chief and as a freelance writer for WIRED.com. Myers earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College and currently resides in San Francisco.

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Matt Oehlsen is an account director at WIRED, handling integrated sales for the European auto and finance accounts in the New York office. Before joining WIRED he served as an account director at Say Media, where he was named 2012 salesperson of the year. Matt graduated from Fordham University with a bachelor’s in psychology. He currently lives in Long Island City with his girlfriend.

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Florence Pak is the design director of WIRED’s Marketing and Advertising and WIRED Brand Lab, overseeing branding campaigns with key advertisers. Previously, she was art director at Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Portfolio, and a senior designer at Equinox and several other design firms. A native of Chicago, Pak has a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

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Katie M. Palmer is a senior editor at WIRED, where she contributes to science, health, and technology coverage in the magazine and online. Before coming to WIRED, she worked at publications including Discover and IEEE Spectrum. Palmer studied at Williams College and has a graduate degree from New York University. She resides in San Francisco.

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Lexi Pandell is an assistant research editor at WIRED. She also writes for the magazine. As a freelance journalist, she has covered vigilantes, isolation tanks, wild turkeys, and nautical archaeology, among other topics. Pandell holds a master’s degree from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Santa Barbara. She currently resides in Oakland.

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Joanna Pearlstein is the deputy managing editor at WIRED, where she oversees editorial workflow, edits front-of-the-book sections, and directs the research department and editorial fellowship program. Her 2013 feature about the ammunition industry, “Overkill,” was selected for the Best American Infographics 2014 anthology. Before joining WIRED, she was news editor at Red Herring and a senior editor at MacWEEK. She graduated from Vassar College and lives in San Francisco with her family.

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David Pierce is a senior writer at WIRED. He covers the wide and expanding world of personal technology, exploring how we change and are changed by the gadgets, apps, and services we use. Previously he was deputy editor at The Verge. He has written for The Washington Post, PC Magazine, and elsewhere and has been featured on CNN, BBC, Nightline, and more. He attended the University of Virginia and now lives in San Francisco.

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Caitlin Rauch is the marketing director at WIRED, overseeing the strategic marketing department. Prior to joining WIRED, she served as the research analyst at The New Yorker and as a sales assistant at FHM. Rauch received a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University. While at Rutgers, she served as managing editor for the independent student-run newspaper The Daily Targum. Rauch currently resides in New Jersey.

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Margaret Rhodes is a staff writer for WIRED, covering design. Before working at WIRED, she was an associate editor at Fast Company, where she covered design for the magazine and wrote online for Co.Design. She received a bachelor degree in journalism from Northwestern University and currently resides in New York City.

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Nicole Riccardi is an integrated marketing manager at WIRED, where she executes integrated cross-platform programs and social campaigns. Before joining WIRED, she served as a marketing assistant at Rand Luxury, where she curated events for high-profile luxury brands. Riccardi received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland. She currently resides in New York City.

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Adam Rogers runs WIRED’s science vertical and edits feature stories, primarily on science but also on geek pop culture. Rogers’ feature “The Angels’ Share,” a detective story about a mysterious fungus that lives on whiskey fumes, won the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for magazine writing. Rogers was a writer and correspondent for WIRED Science, which aired on PBS in 2007. Prior to joining WIRED, Rogers was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and before that he was a writer and reporter at Newsweek. Rogers is the author of the New York Times best seller Proof: The Science of Booze.

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Peter Rubin oversees WIRED’s pop culture and entertainment coverage, both in the magazine and online: movies, TV, music, videogames, virtual reality, and anything else that is absolutely integral to the survival of our species. Prior to arriving at WIRED in 2011, he was a feature writer and editor for more than a decade, penning cover stories for Elle, Details, GQ, Good, and other magazines. Rubin holds a master’s degree from Columbia University and graduated from Williams College. He lives in Oakland with his wife.

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Robbie Sauerberg is the general manager, advertising, at WIRED, responsible for identifying and developing new and innovative sales opportunities, products, and partnerships. Robbie joined WIRED in 2012 as a digital sales planner and has since held roles as senior sales planner and manager, planning and product. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Miami University, Ohio, and currently resides in New York City.

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Ashley Shaffer is an associate social media editor at WIRED. Prior to WIRED, she worked with Condé Nast advertising teams including The New Yorker, Bon Appétit, W, and Teen Vogue. She received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. Originally from Maui, she now resides in San Francisco.

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Camille Signorelli is the executive brand director at WIRED, where she manages the teams responsible for aspects of marketing including brand positioning, research, idea generation, and program execution. Prior to WIRED, Signorelli spent nearly 10 years at The New Yorker, where she rose through the ranks to ultimately run its Strategic Marketing Department. She received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from James Madison University. Signorelli and her husband currently live in Hoboken.

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Sarah Silberg is a Senior Photo Editor at WIRED, where she conceptualizes, produces, and edits photography for the magazine. Before joining WIRED she was an associate photo editor at New York Magazine. Silberg received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Economics from New York University. She currently resides in San Francisco.

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Lee Simmons is a writer and copy editor at WIRED and was senior editor of the WIRED App Guide. Before that he worked for The Economist, Houghton Mifflin, Harvard University Press, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He also taught at Harvard and was a consultant and case team leader for six years at the Boston Consulting Group. He studied philosophy at UC Santa Cruz and economics and business strategy at Harvard, MIT, and Harvard Business School. Simmons grew up in Hawaii and is now based in San Francisco.

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Matt Simon is a homepage editor and writer focusing primarily on science. He does the Absurd Creature of the Week column. Prior to joining WIRED, he was a copy editor at a marketing firm for dentists. He lives in San Francisco and graduated from UC Davis with a degree in English.

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Emily Smith is head of content operations at WIRED, where she works with our editorial and operations teams across the magazine, WIRED.com, and WIRED events. Previously she spent four years as the executive director for digital editorial operations and development at Condé Nast, and 10 years as the executive director of the Society of Publication Designers in New York. She is an alumna of NYU, The Ohio State University, and Teach for America. She is slowly coming to grips with the realization that she will never achieve her original dream of being briefly featured as a corpse on the original Law & Order series. However, her backup-singer dreams continue without fail or evidence to support them.

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Pam Smith is a copy editor at WIRED. Before joining the magazine, she was a contract national news editor at Internet Broadcasting in St. Paul, Minnesota; a staff reporter and then an associate editor for American Lawyer Media, in San Francisco; a local newspaper reporter in the Bay Area; and an editorial fellow at Mother Jones magazine. Smith received her Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University and now lives with her family in San Francisco.

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Andy Sonnenberg is the national advertising director of WIRED, overseeing revenue generation and partnership extensions across all WIRED brand channels. Before joining WIRED, Sonnenberg served as advertising director of Ars Technica. Prior to joining Condé Nast, he was group publisher at Summit Business Media in New York City. Sonnenberg received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan. He currently resides in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

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Jake Spurlock is a software engineer on the WIRED tech team, overseeing digital publishing, content management, and web performance. Prior to his work at WIRED, Spurlock led web development at Maker Media, overseeing Make: magazine and Maker Faire. He has a degree in digital media from Utah Valley University, and while originally a Utah native, he currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife and three kids.

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Chuck Squatriglia coordinates daily news coverage and oversees homepage promotion for WIRED.com. Prior to joining WIRED in 2007, Chuck served as a staff writer, bureau chief, and assistant metro editor for The San Francisco Chronicle. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and currently lives in San Francisco.

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Annie Trinh Steinhaus is senior business director at WIRED. Previously she worked in finance and business operations at Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, and Condé Nast Media Group. Annie received a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughter.

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Matt Stevenson is the director of the WIRED Brand Lab, overseeing the creative and development of branded content initiatives and advertising campaigns across the brand. Before joining WIRED, he was a senior producer with The Studio at Condé Nast, managing the execution of custom content campaigns across Condé Nast titles. Previously he worked as a strategy consultant with the Grapevine Group, with a focus on digital storytelling and social media. He received a bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University. He currently resides in Manhattan.

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Liz Stinson writes about the colliding worlds of art, design, technology, and science for WIRED. Her work also has appeared in Details, Variety, Paste, and The Daily, and on The Awl.

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Nick Stockton is a staff writer for WIRED Science. He writes about anything that’s passed peer review. Stockton received his bachelor’s degree from Portland State University and his master’s degree from New York University. He currently resides in San Francisco.

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Sam Storch is the special projects manager at WIRED, working on proactive strategic partnerships, influencer development, and product curation for WIRED programs and events. Additionally, she oversees WIRED Insider social platforms and works closely on public relations initiatives for the brand. Before joining WIRED, Storch worked in public relations and events capacities at Glamour, GQ, Architectural Digest, and Condé Nast Corporate. Storch received a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University. Originally from Connecticut, she currently resides in New York City.

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Ed Sumner is the associate airector, audience development at WIRED. He has held previous roles at WIRED including manager of digital sales planning. Before joining WIRED, he worked at Knights of Columbus Insurance in the Management Development Program. Sumner received a bachelor’s degree from Pepperdine University. He currently resides in Manhattan.

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Ashley Tabroff is a senior digital planner at WIRED, managing ad campaigns from the RFP stage through postsale evaluation. Before joining WIRED, she worked as a marketing/PR consultant for a talent management agency. Tabroff received a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University. She currently resides in Manhattan.

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Jason Tanz is editor at large at WIRED, where he writes frequently for the web and print and helps set the brand’s editorial strategy. He has been at WIRED since 2007; previously he worked at Fortune Small Business, Fortune, and SmartMoney magazines. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, and Spin, among many other publications, and he is the author of Other People’s Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America. Tanz received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and son.

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Theresa Thadani.

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Nicholas Thompson was named editor in chief of WIRED in 2017.

Prior to joining WIRED, Thompson served as editor of NewYorker.com from 2012 to 2017, during which time monthly readership increased by 700 percent. He also oversaw the redesign of the website, the launch of The New Yorker Today app, and the introduction of an online paywall, which contributed to a 130 percent increase in annual subscriptions.

Before The New Yorker, Thompson was a senior editor at WIRED, where he assigned and edited the feature story “The Great Escape,” which was the basis for the Oscar-winning film Argo.

During his career, Thompson has written about politics, technology, and law for numerous publications. In 2009, his book “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War” was published to critical acclaim.

Thompson is also a contributor for CBS News and regularly appears on CBS This Morning and CBSN. He is a cofounder of The Atavist, a National Magazine Award–winning digital publication.

Thompson is a senior fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Young Leaders Council on the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. He was a United States Truman Scholar and graduated from Stanford University.

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Janice Trichon is the executive director, finance and operations, at WIRED. Before joining WIRED, she served as the executive director, finance and operations, at GQ. Previously she worked in finance and business operations at Condé Nast Traveler and Details. Trichon received a Master of Business Administration from the TRIUM Global Executive MBA program, a joint program of New York University Stern School of Business, London School of Economics and Political Science, and HEC Paris School of Management.

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Zack Tollman is the application architect on the WIRED tech team. Before joining WIRED, Tollman worked as technical lead at the Theme Foundry and senior web engineer at 10up. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lawrence University and a PhD from Washington State University. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife.

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Tony Vongprachanh is a software engineer at WIRED, assisting with the company’s web-related products. He was previously at Magento as a front-end web developer, where he helped with the redesign of Magento.com. Vongprachanh received his Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Los Angeles. He currently resides in San Francisco.

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Angela Watercutter is a senior associate editor and writer at WIRED, covering entertainment and pop culture. Prior to joining WIRED, she was a reporter for the Associated Press. Watercutter is a member of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle and was a senior editor of Longshot magazine and contributor to Pop-Up Magazine. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio University. She currently resides in San Francisco.

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Colin Weber is a premium markets manager overseeing digital campaigns across all categories. Prior to WIRED, Weber started his career as a personal banker and came to Condé Nast through the Corporate Media Group. Colin received a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of New Jersey and currently resides in Hoboken.

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Corey Wilson is the senior director, communications at WIRED, overseeing all public relations for the brand. Before joining WIRED, he served as the director of communications at GQ. Previously he worked as a marketing executive at Edelman and as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Wilson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.

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After studying photography at college in Southern California, Dan finished his formal education at the film school of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He began his career in photography as a photojournalist in his home town in Ventura County, California. After winning several regional awards for his work, he moved to New York City, where magazine assignments came rapidly. Known for the broad range of subject matter he is able to interpret, he is widely recognized for his unusual celebrity portraiture, his scientific photography, photo illustrations, drawings and photojournalistic stories. Dan has won over one hundred national and international awards from American Photography, Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, PDN, The Art Directors Club of New York, Life Magazine, and won the world press photo award in the portrait category, among others. He was also awarded the prestigious Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography. In 2003, he was honored by Kodak as a photo “Icon” in their biographical “Legends” series. He has had four exhibitions of his personal work in galleries in New York and Los Angeles and had a book of his magazine work entitled Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs published in 2009 by Aperture. In addition, he has photos in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Harry Ransom Center in Austin and the Wittliff Collection at Texas State University in San Marcos. He has a scheduled exhibition in 2012 at the Jepson Center for the Arts/Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA. Dan lives in Austin, Los Angeles and Savannah, Georgia with his wife and son.

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Marcus Wohlsen is a senior editor at WIRED covering business and technology. Before joining WIRED, he worked as a reporter in the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press. He is also the author of Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life (Current 2011). Wohlsen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard and a Master of Journalism degree from UC Berkeley. He currently lives in Berkeley with his wife and son.

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As WIRED’s first full-time analytics hire, Karen Zhang is a digital analytics manager, where she delivers data-driven insights and strategic recommendations to digital editorial, product, and audience-development teams. Prior to joining the team, she worked in digital marketing and analytics for Sephora and VMware. Karen received her degree from Northeastern University where she studied marketing and mathematics. Originally from Boston, she currently resides in San Francisco.