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Everyone here ran a household before they wrote about one, and most of them did something else first — a metro desk, a logistics floor, a middle-school classroom, a hospital discharge unit. The experience is the qualification, and we state it rather than implying it.
Nine years a business reporter at the Star Tribune, four editing a national personal-finance magazine, then the realisation that the least-covered economy in America was inside her own house.
Previously: Star Tribune; a national personal-finance magazine.
Runs The Entry, The Household Audit.
Ran the metro desk at a Milwaukee daily. The reason the calendar exists and the deadlines hold. Edits The Long Entry and runs Minutes.
Previously: Metro editor, a Milwaukee daily.
Runs The Long Entry, Minutes.
A decade as an operations manager in logistics before concluding that the hardest supply chain she had ever run was her own kitchen.
Previously: Operations manager, logistics.
Ten years writing money explainers for a large personal-finance site, and tired of writing them for individuals when everyone he knew decided as a household.
Previously: Staff writer, a national personal-finance site.
Runs Ledger.
Eight years teaching middle school, then five writing about the kids she taught and the parents she emailed.
Previously: Middle school teacher, eight years.
The relationships editor and the one divorced member of staff, which he considers the qualification.
Previously: Features writer, a national men's magazine.
Twelve years a hospital care coordinator — the person who gets a discharged patient home and makes sure somebody is there.
Previously: Hospital care coordinator, twelve years.
Grew up in a three-generation household in San Antonio and now runs one in Minneapolis — parents, husband, kids, one bathroom.
Previously: Reporter, a Spanish-language daily.
The youngest on staff and the only one without children, on purpose. Reports Standard Operating Procedure and runs Correspondence.
Previously: Grew up in Duluth; joined from a Twin Cities alt-weekly.
Runs Standard Operating Procedure, Correspondence.
A retired hospice social worker who is not a therapist and says so weekly. Thursdays.
Previously: Hospice social worker, twenty-six years.
Runs The Reasonable Adult.
Compiles Index, checks the numbers, and finds the table a figure actually came from.
Previously: Survey researcher; five years.
Runs Index.
Also on the masthead
Sam Ochieng
Art Director
Sets the type, commissions the photography, and keeps the charts honest.
Claire Dubois
Audience & Newsletter Editor
Sends the Weekly Entry on Sunday and the Index on Wednesday, and reads every reply.
Ruth Feldman
Copy Editor
Last read before anything publishes.
Medical advisory board
Not yet appointed. Until it is, the Care desk publishes only process and paperwork reporting — the calls, the forms, the appeals — and nothing carrying a clinical claim. When the board is named, every reviewed piece will carry the reviewer’s name, credential and the date they checked it.
Contributing writers
Eight to ten freelancers write for us in rotation. Every one is named on their piece and listed here once they have published. Pitches go to editors@householdjournal.com.