Jennifer Chang (@jenzchang) is Quartz’s growth editor for platforms. She’s responsible for developing editorial strategies and overseeing social media growth, in addition to working closely with the video team. She was previously the associate editor and social media editor at SUCCESS magazine. Jennifer speaks fluent Mandarin and very shaky Vietnamese.

Chris Chappel (@chipplec) is a Senior Marketing Producer on the Client Services team. Prior to Quartz, Chris has spent his career working in brand marketing, project management and branded content at The New York Times and Mashable. A native of Pittsburgh, PA and graduate of Penn State University, he spends his spare time cooking, jogging, watching way too much TV, and pondering the Fermi Paradox.

Maura Cheeks (@mauracheeks) is Quartz’s branded content editor. She previously managed social media and digital marketing for the United States Olympic Committee and the New York Knicks. Maura has a degree in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania and is pursuing her MBA at NYU. Her obsessions include writing, reading anything that makes her ask more questions, and baked brie.

Kabir Chibber (@quinto_quarto) is Quartz’s business editor. He also heads up Quartz’s sports obsession. Previously, he was at the BBC and Bloomberg, and wrote for Harper’s and other magazines. Kabir was born in Hong Kong and grew up in London.

Liz Rioux-Christian is a senior account director at Quartz managing the corporate, financial, and healthcare advertising categories. She was previously Northeast account director at National Journal Group within Atlantic Media’s Washington division. Liz has served as VP of content sales at McMurry/TMG, managing director of the Meredith Custom Solutions Group, and as interactive and integrated sales director for Newsweek. Liz earned a degree in Economics and Political Science from Drew University and a degree in Art History as well as graduate studies at Rutgers University. Her obsessions include global issues that will affect her daughters, innovative marketing solutions, and engaging branded content.

Lynsey Chutel (@lynseychutel) covers southern Africa from Johannesburg. Before joining Quartz, Lynsey worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press, covering breaking news and features in southern Africa. Earlier, she was a producer at the South African 24-hour news channel eNCA, where she reported from several countries in Africa, including Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Rwanda. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s degree in international relations from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has two rowdy dogs.

Jamie Clark is the senior sales planner, managing and overseeing campaigns as they go live and come back down. He was previously at Initiative working on the Miller Coors account and studied Marketing at the George Washington University. He hails from the Bay Area in California and still doesn’t own a down coat for the winters on the East coast.

Anastasia Clarke is the Sales and Marketing Assistant at Quartz. Hailing from NYC & Trinidad and Tobago, she previously worked in client services at an advertising agency in T&T. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and Spanish from Claremont McKenna College. Having spent varied amounts of time in the US, the Caribbean, and Europe, Anastasia is obsessed with the global exchange of ideas and culture—and how technology makes this possible. When not at work, you can find her spelling words the “British way,” trying to enjoy all the family-friendly cultural events that NYC has to offer, or grooving to her favo(u)rite DJ Private Ryan mixtape.

Sara Clayton (@saraclayton64) is an International Account Director in the London office. Sara graduated from Bristol UWE with a BSC in Creative Product Design before landing a graduate role on The Week UK sales team. Sara worked at The Week for 7 years working her way up to Account Director level where she became the finance specialist and looked after print, digital and creative solutions lines.

Keith Collins (@collinskeith) is a reporter and graphics developer on Quartz’s Things team. His work, both written and visual, has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fast Company, Slate, Al Jazeera America, and on the Associated Press newswire. His obsessions include science, identity theft, and the intersection of crime and technology. Keith holds a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School where he focused on science and digital journalism.

Michael Coren (@mj_coren) is technology and business reporter for Quartz in San Francisco. He focuses on the people and business landscape of Silicon Valley including startups and venture capital. Michael most recently was founder of a software startup called Publet before returning to a career in science and technology journalism. Michael earlier was managing editor of the Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia, CNN.com’s science producer, and a science, tech, and environment reporter at the San Jose Mercury News. Michael freelanced for Fast Company, Foreign Policy, The Economist, and other news organizations. He has a bachelor’s from Emory University in journalism and environmental science and a master’s in environmental economics from the Yale School of Forestry.

Abdi Latif Dahir (@Lattif) is a reporter with Quartz Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds an M.A. in Politics and Global Affairs from Columbia Journalism School. Prior to that, he was a journalist based in Kenya and Somalia working and freelancing for both local and international media outlets. He speaks Somali, Arabic, and Kiswahili.

Simon Davies (@asimondavies) is Quartz’s managing director, EMEA. His career began with stints in regional newspapers, IT press and women’s glossies before he became one of the first commercial employees at The Week. He spent 11 years in its London and New York offices, finishing his time as publisher of the UK edition and the week.co.uk. Simon then joined Point 6, a branding agency in west London where, among other things, he helped establish a Shanghai office. In 2012 Simon launched his own firm representing international print and digital clients to advertisers in EMEA. He became Quartz’s executive director, EMEA in June 2014.

Kevin J. Delaney (@delaney) is editor in chief and president of Quartz. He was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for a decade, with that time split between hardship postings in Paris and San Francisco. While covering internet companies such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook for the Journal, he became convinced that newspapers could do much more to ensure that good journalism thrives in the digital age. He returned to New York and became managing editor of WSJ.com, where he led efforts that helped greatly expand the Journal’s online readership and championed innovative journalism projects that went on to win prizes. Early in his career, Kevin was a reporter for SmartMoney Magazine and a TV producer in Montreal. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and was the Hearst digital media professional-in-residence at Columbia University for 2014-15.

Annemarie DesLauriers (@annemarieD) is a senior account director at Quartz managing the financial services, real estate, and insurance categories. She was previously at the Condé Nast Media Group as luxury director at BRIDES, overseeing the integrated luxury vertical and Unilever business across platform. Prior to rejoining Condé Nast, where she had formerly been responsible for sponsor acquisition for Women’s Wear Daily’s C-suite event series, “WWD Summits,” Annemarie was the lifestyle account manager at Town & Country, part of the Hearst Corporation. She began her career at bottlerocket marketing group managing entertainment brands including VH1, the Food Network, Cartoon Network and AMC. Annemarie graduated from the University of Kansas with degrees in Journalism and French. Her obsessions include world travel, family, constant hydration and daily consumption of the Quartz Daily Brief.

Emily Diamond is the associate director of media planning for Quartz. She has previously worked in digital sales planning at both Lucky Magazine and GQ Magazine. Emily has a degree in marketing and organization & management from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Her obsessions include Excel and sushi.

Natalie Diamond is digital director, based in Los Angeles. She started her career on the media agency side in New York and after several years moved to London to work at international media properties such as the BBC and The Wall Street Journal in both the ad sales and marketing departments. She graduated from Boston University, School of Communications with a degree in Advertising and is obsessed with food and travel.

Adam Epstein (@aepstein) is a reporter for Quartz, covering the future of television as it relates to business, technology, and culture. He attended Johns Hopkins University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, where he wrote about the abolitionist John Brown with disturbing frequency and cultivated his obsession with all things Cormac McCarthy. He also has a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School. Before coming to Quartz, Adam was a freelance entertainment writer and worked briefly in publishing.

Micah Ernst (@micahwave) is the vice president of product engineering at Quartz. Most recently, Micah worked as the manager of web development for TIME.com where he oversaw the launch of multiple site redesigns and various other digital products. Previously, he worked for the public relations agency MWW Group where he helped create sites for clients like Nikon, Samsung, McDonalds, and Hershey’s. Micah holds a degree in information technology from Rochester Institute of Technology. His obsessions include the future of the web, gadgets, snowboarding and gaming.

Tim Fernholz (@timfernholz) covers state, business and society for Quartz. What does that mean? Whenever business competition spills into the halls of government, economic conflict puts protesters in the street, companies disrupt the way we live or public policy shapes the market, he’ll be there. Probably with statistics, anecdotes and a lot of nuance. Tim began covering politics and policy in Washington, D.C. at the American Prospect in the uneventful year of 2008, before joining National Journal in 2011 to write about fiscal policy. Then he was the business editor of GOOD Magazine, leading coverage on everything from tech companies and trade wars to globalization and political economy. He has been a fellow at the New America Foundation studying financial regulation and was awarded a Knight Journalism Fellowship in foreign affairs coverage and new media. He lives in New York City, where he is baffled by the local customs. He is from the Great State of New Hampshire.

Leah Fessler (@leahfessler) is an editorial fellow at Quartz in New York, working with the Ideas team. She graduated Middlebury College in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in literature and creative writing. Leah’s obsessions include the intersections of sexual culture, technology, gender, politics and romance. Also pho. Her writing is featured in The Washington Post and The Atlantic, and she spoke on hookup culture at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival. Prior to Quartz, she worked in management at Bridgewater Associates. She speaks Spanish.

Amanda Fishman is a marketing producer on the client services team at Quartz. She started her career on the agency side, managing digital and print campaigns for B2B, non-profit and financial clients. Amanda later joined an entertainment marketing startup as the Client Manager/Project Manager where she discovered her passion for custom marketing programs, engaging content, and premium client services. Amanda graduated from Syracuse University with a dual major in Communications and Political Science. She also studied abroad in Barcelona where she experienced the unique architecture, food, and culture of the Catalonian region. In her spare time, you can find her at the beach (weather permitting) or pairing excellent wines and cheeses.

Jocelyn Florence (@FlorenceOtter) is Quartz’s director of branded content. Previous jobs include: strategist at Weber Shandwick and Associate Producer at Ars Nova, an NYC live performance venue. She has an MBA from University of Chicago Booth and a BA in English and Religion from Middlebury College. Her obsessions include the future of content and gingersnaps.

Adam Freelander (@adamplease) is a video journalist at Quartz, focusing on short-form storytelling, politics, culture, and design. Before coming to Quartz, he covered breaking news on the video desk at The New York Times. His work has also been featured in Vanity Fair, the Awl, and the Huffington Post. He studied film at Wesleyan University, and has been making videos since, like, the 90s.

Hilary Fung (@hil_fung) is editor of Atlas, a platform for charts and data that is powered by Quartz and open to users everywhere. She was previously a visual editor at The Huffington Post, where she used data and visuals to tell news and enterprise stories. Her design and graphics work has also appeared in The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

Alicia Gamble is Quartz’s sales director in the Pacific Northwest. Ali started her career on the agency side at BBDO in San Francisco, and soon after made the move to tackle digital sales at Investor’s Business Daily in New York. Prior to joining Quartz, Ali spent five years as an integrated seller at Inc. Magazine. Ali is a native of San Francisco and received a B.S. from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She’s also extremely obsessed with her pug, Otis G.

Alicia Gearty (@aliciagearty) is a designer on the creative services team at Quartz where she works on ads and events. Prior to Quartz, she was at Condé Nast Traveler, and The Atlantic where she spent several years at AtlanticLIVE designing identities and collateral for events. She loves animals and typography. She has spectacular handwriting and would like an office pet.

Dave Gershgorn (@davegershgorn) covers artificial intelligence for Quartz. He’s written about technology, photography, and dogs for Popular Science, The New York Times, and WNYC. He holds a master’s degree in health and science journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Obsessions: robots he can high-five, building computers, and playing the blues.

Devjyot Ghoshal (@devjyotghoshal) is a roving editor with Quartz India, our partnership with Scroll. Prior to joining in 2014, he spent a year at the Columbia Journalism School as a Fulbright scholar. He cut his teeth with Business Standard, an Indian financial daily, in its Delhi, Kolkata, and Singapore offices, where he worked as a staff reporter and Southeast Asia correspondent. He is passionate about beating deadlines, and Arsenal F.C.

Olivia Goldhill (@OliviaGoldhill) is Quartz’s weekend writer, with a focus on philosophy, science, and social and political issues. She previously worked at The Daily Telegraph in the UK, first as part of their graduate scheme (which sent her to Media Wales and Press Association), then as a business reporter, and finally as a features writer. She’s written a travel guide to Bogotá, Colombia, and orchestrated a successful Telegraph campaign demanding that the government address sexual assault at university. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Times (of London), and The Huffington Post, among others.

Ryan Grabenkort (@rgrabenkort) is regional director, West Coast and APAC for Quartz. A graduate of UC Berkeley with a Bachelor’s degree in English, Ryan initially sought out a career in journalism but found a calling on the business side of media. His career began during the dotcom boom with a German information security company that brought him to New York, Asia, and South America. The draw of prestigious media brands, however, landed him at Atlantic Media where, aside from a short hiatus at a non-profit, he has worked in advertising sales and management positions since 2004. Most recently, Ryan was the Managing Director of National Journal, overseeing sales and strategy, and before that he was West Coast Director for The Atlantic.

Jane Grenier (@janiejaner) is executive director of Client Services. Prior to joining the Quartz team, Jane had an extensive career at Condé Nast, where her last post as Executive Director Marketing for Condé Nast Global Development involved initiating marketing solutions across the company’s digital, mobile and print properties in 26 countries. Always innovating on behalf of marketing partners, Jane also worked within the CondéNet digital division, launched Teen Vogue as Associate Publisher Marketing, and served in various posts at Gourmet and Vogue, as well as Hearst’s Esquire. She holds a master of fine arts in acting from the Asolo Conservatory, and finds that the skills acquired in the theater serve her well to this day.

Jeffrey Griffin is Quartz’s Executive Director of Ad Operations. Over the past 3 years, Jeffrey has focused his attention on technology innovation within the digital advertising industry. Some of his notable projects include the development and launch of ShowMeVideoke, Global Rich Media and Publisher Specs, as well as being the Co-Founder of How’z Dat! Entertainment and partial owner of the Bronx’s 259 Studio, which was featured on VH1’s Love & Hip Hop. Jeffrey received his Economics & Finance degree from SUNY College at Buffalo. He spends his free time cheering on the Buffalo Bills (often in vain), and dancing circles around anyone (man/woman/small-child/animal/other) willing to take on the challenge.

Alison Griswold (@alisongriswold) is a reporter for Quartz covering the sharing economy and assorted other topics, such as Chipotle and McDonald’s. Before that, she wrote about business and economics for Slate’s Moneybox column. Alison has a bachelor’s from Yale, where she studied useful things like the intersection of language and music in Edgar Allan Poe. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Business Insider, and Thomson Reuters. She is an unabashed fan of the Egg McMuffin.

Christopher Groskopf (@onyxfish) Quartz’s data editor. He specializes in interpreting and explaining the meaning of complex datasets. Prior to joining Quartz Chris worked on the NPR Visuals team and the Chicago Tribune News Applications team. He is fascinated by all kinds of tools and is the creator of many pieces of open source software, such as csvkit and agate. Chris is interested in a wide variety of global social, economic and scientific issues. He only speaks one language, but he can code in ten.

Gwynn Guilford (@sinoceros) is a general reporter and editor for Quartz. She previously blogged at Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish, where she covered China and economics, among other topics. Before that she spent six years in China, including three researching Chinese companies and macroeconomic developments for hedge funds. Gwynn has also worked in Myanmar, reporting from Yangon and Mandalay on the 2007 military crackdown, and writing for the Myanmar Times & Business Review in 2004. Her work has appeared in Slate, the Christian Science Monitor and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Gwynn speaks and reads Mandarin, as well as basic Burmese.

Shaun Hambly (@SDHambly) is marketing and communications coordinator in the London office. Before joining Quartz, he volunteered at the Media Legal Defence Initiative, assisting council in defending the rights of journalists worldwide. Shaun graduated with an LLB Law degree from London School of Economics and spent four months trekking throughout the United States and Canada beforehand. He is obsessed with international news and everything to do with musical theatre.

Derek Hester (@derekhester) is a senior account director at Quartz. He was previously an account director with Vanity Fair, part of the Condé Nast Media Group handling beauty, spirits, travel and pharmaceutical categories during his tenure. Derek has a degree in Advertising from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His obsessions include food, travel, great branded content, and Glass.

Josh Horwitz (@horwitzjosh) is a correspondent for Quartz who covers internet business and technology in Asia. He has lived in Shanghai, Beijing, and the great city of Taipei, where he studied Mandarin with under the Taiwan Ministry of Education’s Huawei Enrichment Scholarship. He now calls Hong Kong home. Josh’s obsessions include China’s internet, streaming media, and the future of transportation.

Caitlin Hu (@husca) is a deputy news editor. Previously the editor of COLORS Magazine in Italy, she also helps direct photography at Quartz. She holds an MA in philosophy from the Sorbonne, and an BA in International Relations/Security from Wellesley.

Katie Ingman is the Marketing Director of Quartz in EMEA based in London. Before joining Quartz in June 2016, she held positions at Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. Her obsessions include food, travel, playing netball, watching rugby, quizzes and a good red wine.

Jasmin James (@im_jas_sayin) is the editorial assistant and assistant to Kevin Delany at QZ. She was previously part of the social media team a Eater where she made people fall in love with food. Prior to that, she taught English and computer sciences to elementary school student’s on Chicago’s Southside. Jasmin received her Bachelors of Journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism, where she interned for brands like Teen Vogue, Meredith Corporation, and ESPN before graduating. Her obsessions include the impact of streaming on the music industry, the evolution of streetwear culture, the explosion of black narratives arising in mainstream media, and the business of American reality tv shows.

Yitz Jordan (@ylove) a.k.a. Y-LOVE, is a senior web developer at Quartz and an award-winning hip-hop artist and inspirational speaker. Yitz has been online since 1991, writing code since 1997, living in New York since 1999, and writing for change since 2004. Previously engaged in the world of advertising, Yitz has built experiences for such brands as Calvin Klein, Disney, and Dr Pepper, and has been developing in Javascript for almost as long as it has existed. His writing has appeared in such publications as the Advocate and Huffington Post, and his multilingual “global hiphop” style led XXL Magazine to say that Y-LOVE “is making hiphop kosher”. Yitz is an ardent Android fan and Google evangelist, obsessing over all things Mountain View, the mobile web, and making user interfaces that amaze.

Jason Karaian (@jkaraian) is senior Europe correspondent for Quartz, based in London. He previously spent 10 years at The Economist Group, first at the European edition of CFO magazine writing about the financial aspects of business and later, as financial services editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, covering the business aspects of finance. He also served as industries editor for The World In and wrote about everything from banks to bonds to basketball for The Economist. Before moving to London he was a macroeconomic analyst in Chicago, where he developed an affinity for data and statistics that he now uses to enrich—and demystify—stories about the business world.

Madhura Karnik is a writer for Quartz India, our partnership with Scroll, and is based in Mumbai. She previously worked with the Mint newspaper and Crisil, a credit ratings agency, in Mumbai. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and is passionate about economics, business, and impact investing.

Yomi Kazeem (@TheYomiKazeem) is a reporter with the Quartz Africa team and is based in Lagos, Nigeria. He writes about African politics, economy, finance—and elephants. Before joining Quartz, Yomi freelanced with Ventures Africa and other African-based media. Yomi holds a bachelor’s degree in International Law and Diplomacy from Babcock University in Nigeria. He has worked in radio since 2012 on one of Lagos’ popular urban stations, discussing soccer, politics and business. His obsessions include sports business, Football Manager, travel, and soccer. He will watch any movie that depicts outer space and is fascinated by AntMan.

Colette Keane is a product marketing manager. Prior to Quartz, she worked in public relations, brand development and content strategy for fast-growth technology companies. Colette holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Fordham University, as well as a joint master’s degree in Global Management from the University of San Francisco, IQS in Barcelona, and Fu Jen University in Taipei. She struggles with indoor voices, and subsists almost entirely off of coffee, dumplings, and al pastor tacos.

John Keefe (@jkeefe) is a developer in the Quartz Bot Studio and the product manager for Quartz’s apps. He’s working to figure out how conversational software fits into journalism. Keefe came to Quartz from public radio station WNYC, where he was the Senior Editor for Data News. He’s the author of “Family Projects for Smart Objects” and teaches classes about prototyping and bots at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

Sarah Kessler (@SarahFKessler) writes about work and technology. Before coming to Quartz, she was a senior writer at Fast Company. She is also the author of an upcoming book about the gig economy.

Nushmia Khan (@nushmia) is a video journalist at Quartz. She was previously a video producer at Inc., Columbia University and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She covers everything from fashion to science to politics. She has a special passion for covering the Muslim world. She has lived in Turkey, Pakistan and the U.S. She was born in Boston, and is ethnically Pathan. Unfortunately, she gets confused for Malala on a daily basis.

Georgia Frances King (@georgiafrancesk) is a deputy editor for the Ideas team. She focuses on international stories, culture, and the intersection of lifestyle and science+tech. Before moving to America from her home of Melbourne, Australia—and after stints living in both India and Japan—she was second-in-command of frankie magazine, the award-winning quirky Australian women’s lifestyle title. Most recently Georgia was the editor of Kinfolk magazine, the seminal “slow lifestyle” publication, where she also edited the New York Times-best seller, The Kinfolk Home. Aside from thinking about the “big picture,” she is also pretty passionate about the other kind of pictures: art. You’ll find her in Chelsea on Thursdayevenings drinking wine out of cups at the gallery openings nearby Quartz’s New York office.

Courtney Kobylanski (@KobylanskiC) is an international account manager in our London office. She graduated from Aston Business School with a BA degree in International Business, French and Spanish after also spending time studying in Grenoble Ecole de Management. Courtney’s obsession with digital media stems from her internship at a mobile marketing startup in Seville and working on the sales team at Vibrant Media London. She loves to repeat the Surprising Discoveries section on Quartz’s Daily Brief email to anyone who will listen, and only dresses in monochrome.

Dan Kopf (@dkopf) is a reporter for Quartz based in San Francisco. He covers economics and markets. Dan previously reported for Priceonomics, where he used data to identify demographic, economic, and pop culture trends. He has a Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics. Dan spends most of his time looking for a new favorite band.

Hanna Kozlowska (@hannakozlowska) is a criminal justice reporter at Quartz. She previously worked for The New York Times as a writer for NYT Opinion and was a fellow at Foreign Policy magazine. She graduated from Swarthmore College. She speaks Polish, rusty French, and is slowly learning Russian. In addition to crime and punishment, her obsessions include women’s issues and Eastern Europe.

Lily Kuo (@lilkuo) covers East Africa and China in Africa from Nairobi. She previously reported for Quartz from Hong Kong. Before that she covered general news for Reuters in New York and the Los Angeles Times in Beijing. She holds a dual master’s degree in international affairs from the London School of Economics and Peking University, as well as degrees in English and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She won the 2014 Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for international feature for her series on China’s water crisis. She speaks Mandarin and Spanish.

Jamie Labate (@jamielabate) is Quartz’s sales director, EMEA, with over 16 years of print and online media experience spanning the automotive, current affairs, technology and consumer markets. Before joining Quartz, Jamie worked as the deputy managing director of advertising at Dennis Publishing, tasked with leading ad sales for 20 various websites, growing the brand’s digital magazine portfolio, and managing the creative production team. Jamie spends his spare time with his family and harbors dreams of opening his own BBQ restaurant one day.

Heather Landy (@heatherlandy) is managing editor at Quartz, based in New York. Previously, she was editor in chief of American Banker Magazine. Heather started her career at Bloomberg News, where she wrote about retailing, the steel industry and the corporate bond market (although not at the same time). Next she spent five years on the business desk of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Her work in Texas earned a Gerald Loeb award for beat reporting and helped liven up her lectures as an adjunct instructor at TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism. Heather also has served as a special correspondent to The Washington Post, covering Wall Street at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.

Jay Lauf (@jlauf ) is Quartz’s publisher and president. Involved in start-ups, web launches and the expansion of events and conventions across his years in trade magazines, he also helped launch the U.S. edition of T3 (Tomorrow’sTechnology Today). He then moved to WIRED magazine in 2001 serving there seven years, the last two as Publisher. He joined The Atlantic as VP/Publisher in April 2008, and joined Quartz full-time in the summer of 2012. Jay’s “obsession” is figuring out how to make high quality, high integrity journalism commercially viable for the long term.

Daniel Lee (@_dlee) is the design director at Quartz, where he continues to pursue his passion for interaction and product design. Previously, he worked as an iOS, Android and web designer for AOL and HuffPost. Daniel graduated from The University of Missouri where he focused on design, motion graphics and fine art. He’s obsessed with human-computer interactions, problem solving, digital typography and interactive data visualizations.

Patricia Lee (@patricialee91) works on Quartz’s product marketing team, focusing on acquisition and retention of the Daily Brief and app. She was previously a web producer at The New Yorker, and spent two years at Grantland before that. Patricia has a political science degree from Duke, and her obsessions include innovation in tech and immigrant identity.

Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) joined Quartz’s founding team in 2012 as global news editor, and is now a senior editor, in charge of feature stories, style rulings, and other miscellany. He is also a part-time fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute, where he writes science fiction about the near future. He came to Quartz from a 16-year career at The Economist, which took him from the science desk in his native London to postings in Mexico City, Moscow, and Jerusalem. The main thing he remembers from all his travels are the languages, of which he knows five well enough for interviewing evasive politicians, another two well enough to read, and one just well enough to haggle in.

Shirley Liu (@vauxtheshirley) is a fellow on the Quartz marketing team. She graduated from Penn State University and has experience in the fashion, insurance, and recruiting worlds. Her obsessions include media as an educational tool, women in comedy, sandwiches, and things that hold other things.

Lila MacLellan (@lilamaclellan) is a reporter for Quartz. She has previously worked as an editor and writer for Natural Health and Institutional Investor magazines in New York, and Vancouver and Western Living magazines in British Columbia, Canada. Her byline has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Yahoo News, Warscapes, and Vanityfair.com. Lila has an MFA in nonfiction creative writing from The New School, and she studied journalism at Concordia University in Montreal. Her obsessions include health, human behavior, literary memoirs, quirky consumer health products, and Japan, where she lived for three years.

Isabella Steger (@stegersaurus) is a reporter and editor based in Hong Kong. She writes about Hong Kong and China, but also keeps an eye out on Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. She previously spent almost six years at the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, writing about everything from finance to commodities to Hong Kong’s political drama. She is a student of a fair few languages, to varying degrees of fluency.