Jenni Avins is Quartz’s senior lifestyle correspondent, and the founding writer of the Quartzy newsletter. Before joining Quartz in 2014, she covered fashion, food, travel, and pop culture for as a freelancer for The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Vice, Harper’s Bazaar, Saveur, Style.com, and the Cut, where she was a contributing editor. The Webby Awards and McCormick Foundation have honored her independent stories and videos about fashion. Prior to journalism, she worked with knitwear factories in Peru for Edun and studied at UCSB and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She speaks Portuguese and Spanish and lives in Los Angeles.