Cassandra is an assistant editor at First for Women, where she writes and researches about her favorite things: beauty, entertainment, fitness, health and snacks. Before that she freelanced for SELF’s Healthy Beauty Awards and ChickSpeak.com, and interned at People, Portfolio.com (when Conde Nast owned it, RIP), Jane (RIP), NC State alumni magazine and Carolina Woman. Cassandra first discovered Ed her freshman year of college and has been madly in love with him ever since.
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Ava has checked Ed’s internship and WhisperJobs pages all-too-many times a day for several years. After finally meeting Ms. Ed2010 herself, also known as Chandra Turner, Ava excitedly signed on to join the Ed staff. A May 2011 graduate of NYU with degrees in Journalism and English, she’s currently spending her days at O, The Oprah Magazine (and in the Hearst café). Previously, she’s completed editorial internships at Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Seventeen, and Elle.
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Amanda is a senior at Cornell looking to break into the mag world. She’s been in love with Ed since her freshman year, and she was lucky enough to intern for Chandra Turner, Ed’s founder and president (and a few other Edsters) this summer at Parents through ASME’s internship program. The summer before, Ed led her to an internship at Harper’s Bazaar. Right now she’s interning at Cornell’s alumni magazine and itching to start looking for her first job.
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Ashley met Ed during her junior year at the University of Florida, and he helped her land editorial internships at Country Living and Us Weekly. She was lucky enough to start freelancing for Us Weekly while she was still in college leading her to trail Tiger Woods and his many mistresses in Orlando, Fl. After graduation—and a slew of interviews in the rain—she landed her first job (which she found with Ed’s help) at Worth magazine.
Jessica is an producer at CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits stories and galleries about entertainment news and fashion. Before that, she was an editorial intern at Niche Media and InStyle Weddings. She and Ed have been BFFs since sophomore year of college, when she was a student at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Director, Ed’s Buddy System
For Lindsay, fate came in a package with a pink bow: a Playskool recorder for her fifth birthday. She interviewed party guests, reported on the outfits and conversations of strangers in her grocery store, and once she was old enough to read magazines, she tore them apart, marked them up with ideas, and became determined she’d one day be part of the glossies.
Jessica is an assistant account executive at Tractenberg & Co. She graduated from Columbia University in 2009 with a B.A. in English. During her time there, she interned in the fashion departments of bothGlamour and Cosmopolitan. She also enjoyed the web experience she gained during an internship at an online luxury newsletter called Pocket Change. Jessica recently finished a blogging gig with CHAOS Magazine, during which she wrote about current fashion and beauty trends.
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Erin Strecker first heard about Ed her freshman year of college where she was, and continues to be, obsessed with all things magazines. She got her first internship at ACCESS DirecTV thanks to an Ed posting and has also previously interned at Parents (with Ed founder Chandra!) and The Knot. She recently graduated from college and is now interning with Entertainment Weekly.
