Featured Speaker:

Josie Rubio, Writer

Josie Rubio is a New York City–based writer and editor with 20 years of experience in print and digital publications. Her work has appeared on DealNews.com, Guggenheim.org, CMJ, The Huffington Post, Refinery29, DailyWorth, Brooklyn Based, Van Winkle’s, Addiction.com and The Local, The New York Times blog covering the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, and in print in The New York Times, The Red Hook Star-Revue, Music’s Bottom Line, Shape and Vegetarian Times.

For five years, Josie worked at VIVmag, a digital magazine for women, where my responsibilities included overseeing the nutrition section and the VIV Says daily blog. Before working at VIV, she was employed at Columbus Monthly, Columbus, Ohio’s premier city magazine, for nearly 10 years.