Chandra Turner
Founder & President
Chandra Turner (CHAN-dra) has an accomplished career as an editor at the nation’s top women’s magazines. She’s currently the Executive Editor at Parents magazine, the country’s leading parenting magazine with 2.2 million readers. Before Parents, she was the Executive Editor of CosmoGirl (may it rest in peace!). Chandra has also been an editor at Ladies’ Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, YM and Glamour. She started her career as an ASME intern at American Baby and then as an editorial assistant at Good Housekeeping.
Chandra is the founder & president of Ed2010.com. She founded Ed2010 in 1998 when she was an assistant editor at Glamour. Ed2010 began as a group of a dozen friends who met periodically at bars in New York City and exchanged emails about job openings and industry gossip. Ed2010 has since grown to more than a dozen cities and two dozen college campuses throughout the United States and Canada. Via Ed2010, Chandra speaks frequently to college students, recent graduates, and junior editors about how to get started in the industry and how to move up the editorial ladder.
3 Things You Might Want to Know: 1.) She lives in Manhattan with her husband, 2-year-old daughter and baby son. 2.) She has spoken to students at New York University, Syracuse University, Indiana University, University of West Virgina, Howard University, Fordham University, University of Florida, and New York’s The New School and on panels sponsored by the Newswomen of New York, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the American Society of Magazine Editors and Mediabistro.com. 3.) She is from a suburb of Louisville, KY across the Ohio River in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
3 Things You Really Didn’t Need to Know: 1.) Several Ed staffers started out as her interns: Rachel, Yelena, Elisa, Lauren, Christie, Emily H, Emily J., Ariana, and Karen. 2.) She met her sexy British husband on match.com. 3.) She loves stinky cheese.
