Thanks for stopping by! In case we haven’t met, a bit about myself:
I leverage the vast network of creative talent I built throughout my career as an editorial leader and founder of Ed2010 Inc. to find incredible editorial and marketing talent for brands.
A former magazine editor at Hearst, Conde Nast, Meredith, Scholastic and others (read about my pivot), I’ve always been hyper-connected in the industry. I have recruited, hired, and developed the editorial skills of countless editors, writers, and designers — for the brands I worked for and for friends and colleagues. For decades, I connected people to jobs and companies to candidates, just because it was fun. I got a rush out of it. I was referred to as the industry’s “fairy godmother,” because I helped launch so many careers and connected so many people. In 2019, I made that labor of love my full career with the launch of The Talent Fairy.
Unlike other recruiters, I work from the inside. I know the talent because they are my friends, my former co-workers, sometimes even my past interns and bosses. I serve as a liaison from the traditional editorial industry to the new world of content marketing and brand publishing. I run several online communities for editors, have more than 35k followers on Linked In, and run a popular Substack about the constantly changing editorial job market. With The Talent Fairy, I have had the great pleasure of placing candidates in roles at some of the country’s most recognizable brands across fashion, health-tech, venture capital, the arts, non-profit, and yes, media.
There couldn’t have been aTalent Fairy without Ed2010. It’s where I first started building my community. I launched “Ed” in 1997 as a group of whippersnappers looking to land their first editorial gigs and turned it into a vibrant, award-winning career website and community of and for media professionals. Over those years, Ed2010 has helped thousands of people reach their dream jobs through our job board, campus chapters, events, and other resources. And I personally counseled more whippersnappers than I could ever count, spring-boarding them into their first internships and jobs and coaching them as they climbed the career ladder. Now, through The Talent Fairy I help those same editors pivot to executive-level roles and adjacent careers where they build content for non-media brands, nonprofits, and agencies. After all these years, I still get a rush from making that perfect match. There’s just something magical about it.