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Kelly Vaughan<\/strong> is currently the recipe editor for The TODAY Show, where she oversees all stages of digital recipe creation. She was previously a food editor and writer for digital publications including Food52<\/em> and Martha Stewart Living<\/em>. Her work has appeared across digital and print publications including Bon App\u00e9tit<\/em>, Food & Wine<\/em>, Real Simple<\/em>, and Hartford Magazine<\/em>. Prior to her editorial career, she spent a year and half working as a line cook at A’Vert Brasserie in West Hartford, Connecticut. Kelly is also writing her first novel inspired by her restaurant experience.<\/p>\nGail Brussel\u00a0\u201890<\/strong>, has held roles in the publicity departments at Doubleday, Putnam, and Ecco Press, and is currently the Deputy Director of Publicity at Penguin Press. She has created and executed campaigns for New York Times<\/em> bestsellers and award winning authors including novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard, music producer Rick Rubin, actor\/director Griffin Dunne, Senator Raphael Warnock, social scientist Jonathan Haidt, and journalists including Dahlia Lithwick, Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, NPR\u2019s Steve Inskeep and MSNBC host Chris Hayes. She has an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and lives with her family in Westchester NY.<\/p>\nLeslie Fitzgerald<\/strong> is a Partner and Client CIO, responsible for working with both educational endowments and private clients. Prior to joining Partners Capital in 2017, she was an Investment Director at Cambridge Associates, serving Endowment, Foundation and Family Office clients. Leslie holds a BA from Trinity College. At Trinity, Leslie double majored in English, Creative Writing and Public Policy & Law. She is a former Trustee of the Buckingham Browne and Nichols School and member of its Investment Committee. Leslie also serves on the Trinity College Board of Fellows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So far, our guests have been teachers, lawyers, and policymakers, as well as speech-writers, advocates for the homeless, creative writers and financial advisors.\u00a0 Panel members have shared their hard-earned wisdom about how to hold onto a writing practice while learning the ins and outs of asset allocation, shared war stories about breaking into the fields […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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Steve Netcoh