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Nadine Epstein,
Executive Editor & Publisher
Nadine Epstein is Editor and Executive Publisher of Moment. Epstein has been a journalist for 25 years: Her articles, essays and op-ed pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, The Christian Science Monitor, Ms., and other publications. She covered politics and news in the Chicago bureau of The New York Times and worked as an editor and reporter at The City News Bureau of Chicago. She has published three books, contributed to several anthology collections, and co-written a documentary film, which was selected as a semifinalist of the 2001 Academy Awards. Epstein was a 1989-1990 Kellogg Fellow for Public Service in Journalism, part of the Michigan Journalism Fellows program, now known as the Knight-Wallace Fellowship. She has been the recipient of many grants, including the D.C. Commission on the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. During the nineties, she taught journalism in the Master's Program in Journalism, Communications Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has a B.A. and M.A. in international affairs from University of Pennsylvania and was a University fellow in the political science doctoral program at Columbia University. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C. |
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MANDY KATZ,
Senior Editor
Mandy Katz has written from China, New York and Washington on everything from nomads to real estate, Korean War vets to payroll outsourcing. Her Moment byline has appeared over articles on Albert Einstein, rebranding Israel, the future of Jerusalem, violinist Joshua Bell, photographer Annie Leibovitz and anti-Semites with Jewish lovers, among others. A Mandarin speaker and former international trade consultant, Katz earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale, majoring in East Asian studies and graduating magna cum laude. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, three children and a ravenous turtle.
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MAXINE SPRINGER,
Production Editor
Maxine is a 2008 magna cum laude graduate from the University of Missouri, where she majored in magazine journalism and minored in sociology. She began her time at Moment as an intern last summer and is excited to be back in DC working at the magazine. As a hobby, Maxine collects all things pigs: banks, salt and peppershakers, stuffed animals and otherwise.
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JOAN ALPERT,
Assistant Editor
Joan Alpert has spent more than 30 years in the publishing world as an operations director, public relations manager, business developer and writer/editor. Working for profit and not-for-profit organizations, Alpert's career world has ranged from criminal justice to wine tasting and from war veterans to management consultants. She also taught high school English and French, was a Great Books leader, served as PTA and coop nursery school presidents and helped initiate a “reconformodox” congregation. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan. Joan lives in Bethesda with her physician spouse; they have three children and six grandchildren.
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SUSAN FISHMAN ORLINS,
Associate Editor
After graduating from University of Pennsylvania in 1967, where she majored in math and minored in art, Orlins moved to Washington, DC. Over the next seven years, she received a master’s degree from Georgetown University and taught math at Northern Virginia Community College and then at Federal City College. In 1976, Susan became a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch and later at Morgan Stanley in New York City. She is the mother of three daughters and has lived in both Hong Kong and Beijing. Among other publications, her work has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Currently Susan is an associate editor at Moment.
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EILEEN LAVINE,
Associate Editor
Lavine received a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin and a M.S. at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She has been a reporter, writer and editor in New Bedford, MA, New York City, Paris and Washington, DC. She takes classical piano lessons and serves as a volunteer researcher-writer with the William Steinway Diary Project at the National Museum of American History.
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STEPHEN HAY,
Business Manager
Hay graduated from Ohio State with a B.S. in education. He went on to teach 8th grade English at Three Rivers Junior High in Ohio for the next five years. Hay then moved to New Mexico, where he owned a cabinet business for 25 years. Hay then moved to Washington, DC, where he came across Moment Magazine. He has worked as the business manager for Moment for the past year. |
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MARK ABRAMSON,
Moment Intern
Mark is a junior at The George Washington University. He is majoring in journalism and mass communications at the School of Media and Public Affairs. During the year he participates in a number of on-campus clubs and publications. He serves as an editor for the Daily Colonial Campus News and he was a WELH 88.1 newscaster. Mark serves as an editorial and multimedia intern at Moment, working on projects dealing with print and the web. Mark also works as an ISO photography production assistant. He has been juggling since he was five years old. |
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HELEN GROVE,
Moment Intern
Helen is a junior at Pitzer College, a small liberal arts college in Southern California and a member of the Claremont Colleges consortium. She is pursuing a degree in English and world literature, and hopes to write a thesis on the works of Toni Morrison in her senior year. During the academic year Helen works in a lab on campus where she studies infant development, specifically the difference in spatial abilities between sexes. Helen also serves as an intern for Moment during the year, working virtually to complete research, transcriptions and other projects.
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LAUREL LACHOWIEZ,
Moment Intern
Laurel is a senior at Colorado State University, pursuing a degree in English literature. She has worked as a composition tutor for the CSU Athletic Department, served as a copy editor for the Rocky Mountain Collegian, and is a writing consultant for the CSU writing center. She is currently an editorial intern at Moment Magazine, hoping to pursue a career in journalism. When not working or studying, Laurel can be found at a local Starbucks, fueling her coffee addiction. |
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BEN SCHUMAN-STOLER,
Moment Intern
Ben is a senior at The George Washington University, where he’s expecting to receive a B.A. in history with minors in philosophy and creative writing. Besides working as an editorial intern at Moment, he is a staff blogger for DCist, where he covers monuments, memorials, and art in DC. He is also working on an honors thesis regarding Eleanor Roosevelt and Aliyat Hanoar using research he compiled from archives in Jerusalem in the summer of 2007. Ben can make eggs in 10 different ways.
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