Hi, I'm Allie.

I’m an editor, writer and writing coach based in Los Angeles.

The basics

I'm a Harvard-trained journalist who's spent the past decade as an editor at big media outlets like Business Insider, Eater and CNBC.

When you think "editor," you might picture a dull drone analyzing a Word doc with an electron microscope. But we do much more than catch typos and check facts.

We're managers, coaches and sounding boards. We guide reporters through the difficult work of deducing which stories are the most interesting to tell, which sources are most relevant, which sentences are most effective. We do it over and over again, one story at a time, until it's just right.

These days, I put my editing skills to use for individuals and companies seeking to tell their stories. Call me a content strategist, a copy chief, a coach — what I do is separate the signal from the noise, and make that signal as clear, comprehensible and elegant as it can be.

Business Insider
Features Editor, Life
2021 - 2023

CNBC
Editor, Personal Finance
2021

Nextdoor
Content Strategist
2020 - 2021

Hoodline
Managing Editor
2015 - 2020

Eater
Editor, San Francisco
2013 - 2015

View stories I've edited here.

Vulture
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunset magazine
Paper magazine
Eater National
SFist

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Experience

Companies I've worked with

Education

Nextdoor
Box
Zendesk
ThredUp
Alteryx
Ask.com
Lithium Technologies
Local SEO Guide
Temescal Brewing

View copywriting and content work I've done here.

Publications I've written for

Harvard University
B.A., Literature
Editor at Harvard Independent (weekly newspaper), columnist at Harvard Crimson (daily newspaper)