Canadian-American writer and journalist Heidi Legg set out to interview some of the fascinating minds around her in Cambridge, MA while raising her kids. Since those early days, TheEditorial.com has been bringing readers and listeners in-depth and independent interviews around emerging ideas with some of the most significant minds along the Cambridge corridor in both digital and print. Her most recent interviews are also available on TheEditorial podcast form on iTunes.
With Harvard and MIT and a bevy of institutes around us, TheEditorial curates interviews around emerging ideas that will change the way we look at the world and how we live. We believe in the power of putting the Poet next to the Scientist – the Industrialist next to the Artist – the Philanthropist next to the Techie – to capture this rapid moment of innovation.
We call it The Power of the Weave.
Founder and Editor
Heidi Legg in Cambridge, MA
Heidi is an American/Canadian writer and journalist. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Quantitative Social Science at Harvard working on the Future of Media Project. For six years, from 2012 to 2018, she interviewed visionaries around her in Boston and Cambridge where she wove together big thinkers in their fields, using a singular long-format interview and verbatim, which allowed her to keep these voices “on the record” as we watch them change the way we live and work. Her interest is in finding individuals who are disrupting and improving our lives.
She spent 2018-2020 at the Harvard Kennedy School at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy where she wrote sweeping landscape papers on The Fight Against Disinformation in the U.S, Emerging Models in Local News, and one on Preserving America’s Thought Leader Magazines: Six Digital Case Studies. A cofounder in the 90s of Borderfree.com, a researcher and host of documentaries and television programs on the arts, and an early Internet strategist in both San Francisco and Toronto, Heidi has spent over 25 years in media. She is enamored with what makes character. Her debut book, My Evangeline, is on sale at harvardbookstore.com. Her interviews and op-eds have appeared in The Atlantic, CNN.com, The Boston Globe, The Ottawa Citizen, The Globe and Mail, WBUR's Cognoscenti, WGBH’s Greater Boston with Jim Braude, the U.K.’s Press Gazette, and USA Today. She lives in Cambridge.
Strategic Development
Sharon French
Sharon enjoys generating ideas and making connections between what an entrepreneur can create and what the market is asking us to contribute. She is interested in the intersection of design and commerce, having worked for the international division of Donna Karan/DKNY and in Merchandising for Pottery Barn Catalog/Internet at Williams Sonoma, Inc. A graduate of Holy Cross with a BA in Classics, she also holds an MA in International Relations from SAIS Johns Hopkins. This New England native and Cambridge resident has lived in Italy, Japan, and India.
Social Media and Marketing Strategy
Conrad Warre in Thompsonville, MA
Conrad Warre is a cross-media Design & Marketing Director – originally from London, he has lived and worked in London, Paris, New York, Austin Texas, and Boston. When he is not working during the day, he plays electric guitar on the North-East professional music circuit.
His award-winning design and client list include Harvard & MIT’s online start-up edX.org, MIT’s Technology Review, ZDNet, Ziff Davis Media, Smarter Travel Media, Houghton Mifflin, EMI, Rykodisc, and Discover Magazine.
Filmmaker
David Cripton, Brooklyn, NY
David Cripton has been making and editing films and television for 20 years. Heidi first interviewed Dave in 1994, about his documentary about bike theft in Montreal. It's a classic. They also grew up together in a small town in New Brunswick, Canada and Dave have been a storyteller from the start with a penchant for the underground and tragically hip. After leaving McGill and handing Heidi the keys to his empty frat apartment, he headed to the Vancouver Film School and then followed a girl to NYC, his wife, who went to Pratt. David first made short independent films that led to a career as a television editor. We love that he is creating these visionary interviews for us.
Reporter
Jaime Kaiser in Newton, MA
Jaime is an English major and senior in journalism at Brandeis University. She came to us this past Fall to start thinking about what a youth series would look like. Who would we cover? Why is her generation often called apathetic? What fears do they have or not have? She has set out to discover the thinkers and doers of her youthful generation.
Photography
Susan Lapides in Cambridge, MA
Susan Lapides makes the ordinary, extraordinary. Her photography maintains a unique consistency of intimacy and spontaneity. In 1991, Susan photographed President Barack Obama, when he was the editor of the Law Review at Harvard. Her work has appeared in Life, People, Conde Nast Traveler, The Trust for Public Land, Smithsonian, Yankee Magazine. She has awards from the American Association of Media Photographers and Studio Magazine. A graduate of Tufts University and the SMFA.
Photography
Eric Levin in Boston and NYC
Artist and Entrepreneur, Eric Levin grew his photography business from modest beginnings, gaining recognition by peddling his artistic works off the street. Fast forward about a decade, Eric's talents earned him features in national publications, celebrity photo sessions, a host of global clientele and even an Emmy Award in 2013 for his work in front of the camera. Now operating with studios in NYC and Boston, Eric's "Elevin Studios" is a hive of photo and filmmaking activity and an incubator for young talent. Eric hopes to inspire could-be artists, lecturing on "Entrepreneurship in the Arts," most recently for SONY and the World Photography Organization in Sao Paulo and London. Eric studied at Clark University and L'Université de Paris-Sorbonne and enjoys travel, adventure, and astrophysics.
Photography
Kira Hower in Cambridge, MA
Kira Hower wears many hats. She is an Executive and Life Coach for women, the Boston Coordinator for Doing Good Together (promoting family-friendly volunteer opportunities) and she holds her Brown Belt in the Nia technique – a mind/body/spirit movement form that she has taught for nearly a decade. Photography has been a lifelong passion. Her dad taught her to photograph (and see) nature at its most microscopic when she was three years of age on camping trips. She studied photography in school and beyond and led photography trips when she lived in Italy.
Photography
Alan Savenor in Cambridge, MA
As Photo Editor of the Daily Nexus at UC Santa Barbara, later as the publisher of a weekly newspaper there, and as a stringer for the LA Times, Alan was on the front lines of the unrest of the sixties in California. Now, ironically running his own real estate investment company, he is happily going back to his photography roots to help theeditorial.com spread the word about the exciting thinkers and doers creating a new world in our time.
Transcription
Typing Tigers in Brooklyn, NY
Hailing from St. Louis Missouri, Mike Trupiano is our resident audio/video transcriber. After doing time in NYC as a comedian and improv actor, Mike is now teaching English and doing translation in Berlin. His German is slowly improving. typingtigers.com
Copy Editor
Hannah Risser-Sperry in Portland, Oregon
Originally from western Massachusetts, Hannah lives in Portland, Oregon after stints in Boston and Paris, France. A writer, editor, and general lady about town, she works as a social media creative at NORTH (north.com). In her spare time, she hikes, takes photos, buys vintage clothes, and swims with her dog, Barley.
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