About Us
Pilar Guzmán
Yolanda Edwards
As the founding editors of Cookie, magazine and now of Momfilter, we are still hell-bent on helping you filter through all of the parenting chatter and come away with just the right balance of information and inspiration. We won’t give you daily updates on your child’s in-utero fingernail growth. We will, however, arm you with everything from the best stretch cords that won’t sag at the knees and off-the-beaten-path spring-break ideas to the collective conversation–and wisdom–about the issues that keep us all up at night.
Contributors
Miranda Crowell
Miranda Crowell, the features editor at Martha Stewart Living and former features editor of Cookie, is a brand spanking new mom to baby Emilio. She has the rare ability to capture the essential pith of her interview subjects and to tap into cultural trends long before anyone else, and is now our “official” reviewer of baby products.
Myles McDonnell
Myles McDonnell is the copy chief at Brides. At Cookie, he served as copy chief as well as the editor of the all-important Reviews section (games, books, DVDs and more). Myles, the father of Dashiell, 6, and Griffin, 2, has since gone on to launch his own reviews blog, You Know, For Kids.
Rebecca Misner
Rebecca Misner, classics scholar, former lawyer, yoga instructor, and all-around superhuman, is the mother of Mila, 5, and JoJo, 2. We love her effortlessly chic style, her unparalleled wit, and her arsenal of dirty jokes. She ditched corporate litigation to join us. Need we say more?
Jennifer Smith
Jennifer Smith is a brilliant fashion editor who most recently was the fashion director of Cookie. She now lives in Tucson with her 10-year-old son, Fisher, and is a contributing editor to eBay’s fashion site, The Inside Source. She’s an obsessed researcher in the worlds of fashion, food, photography, and travel.
Meghan McEwen
Co-founder and editor of Designtripper and editor-in-chief of CS Interiors magazine, Meghan McEwen is on a mission to prove that travel can be interesting and exhilarating with kids in tow (pitfalls included). Last trip, Sayulita, Mexico; next one, New Orleans–both with her husband and two boys (ages 2 and 4).
Anna Winger
Anna Winger is a Berlin-based novelist, photographer, and mother of two kids. As a child of anthropologists Dr. Robert LeVine and Dr. Sarah LeVine, who specialize in maternal behavior and child development, it is fitting that Anna is writing a regular column, The Mother Culture, about parenting practices around the world.
Ian Kerner
Ian Kerner, Ph.D, is a sex-and-relationships guru whose off-with-the-kid-gloves candor about problems in the bedroom has landed him regular appearances on the Today Show. He’s the author of best sellers She Comes First and Love in the Time of Colic, and founder of the site Good in Bed.
Kristin Nilsen
Kristin is a former children’s librarian and the co-creator of Babygarten, a literacy-based program for new parents and their babies. She recently moved with her husband and 8 year old son to a quiet beach town in New England where she writes about their city mouse-country mouse transition on her blog, Clam Chowder for Lunch.
Jennifer Miller
Jennifer Miller has been immersed in the documentary, art and commercial photography world for the past 20 years, most recently as the Photography Director at New York Magazine. She’s the mother of 4-year old twin boys and lives in Brooklyn.
Jaime Rugh
Artist, crafter, blogger, and mother of two, Jaime Rugh is what we would call a Renaissance Mom. We first learned about Jaime through the beautiful posters she, her husband, and their artist friends created to raise autism awareness.
Jon Maksik
With a 40-year career in education and a son of his own, Jon Maksik, Ph.D., not only understands kids but also had to get parents to understand their kids. Jon was headmaster of the Community School in Sun Valley, Idaho, from 1987 until his retirement in 2006. He lives with his wife, Leslie, in Ketchum, Idaho and Paris.
Jenny Rosenstrach
Jenny Rosenstrach is the creator of the wildly popular family-dinner blog Dinner: a Love Story, co-author of the family cookbook Time for Dinner, and former features director of Cookie. As the mother of Phoebe, 8½, and Abby, 7, Jenny has made it her life’s work to take back family dinner.
Matthew Hranek
Photographer, cook, hunter, collector, fisherman, and father, Matthew Hranek is the ultimate coolhunter. As he criss-crosses the globe, we can count on him to share his spoils, plus he is the master of online shopping–everything from the perfect post-nursing bra to kids’ vintage Barbour coats on eBay.
Lisa Rubisch
Lisa Rubisch is an award-winning commercial director whose client list includes Nike, Puma, Ikea, and Polaroid. She is also a hilarious and poignant writer who claims that her work is the sum total of all of the embarrassing moments of her life strung together. She’s the mom of Owen, 7, and Beckett, 4, and lives in New York City.
Tracey Stewart
Tracey Stewart, mother of two, is the founder and creative director of the NYC-based Moomah, our idea of heaven: an inspiring cafe for parents and kids that combines artful activities and great coffee. Her beautiful blog, Moomah the Journal, aims to inspire parents with it’s simple, creative ideas.
Cynthia Rowley
Cynthia Rowley, the acclaimed fashion designer, is also a DIY lifestyle guru. We are inspired by her boundless energy: in addition to running her own fashion line as well as a contemporary art website, Exhibition A, with her husband Bill Powers, she is a mother of two girls, Kit, 11, and Gigi, 5. Plus, she’s a bad-ass surfer.
Carrie Tuhy
A lifelong magazine journalist, Carrie was the editor of Real Simple, a founding editor of InStyle, and a Life magazine reporter and editor for more 9 years. She is the mother of two adult children and thinks you can move forward by looking back once in a while. She is currently writing a book, The Second Lives of Women.
Brooke Williams
Artist, musician, trendspotter, and mother of three-year-old Ada, Brooke Williams is a true renaissance woman. The executive editor for the blog on Krrb, a new classifieds site dedicated to vintage finds, Brooke also maintains her own blog thisisauthentic. She was a founding contributing editor for the late great Domino Magazine.
Rory Evans
Rory Evans is a career magazine journalist who writes and edits for Allure, Martha Stewart Living, Brides, and InStyle. To us she will always be Cookie’s secret weapon. She lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, New York. They have a cat and may someday soon get a swing set.
Robert Rosenthal
Robert Rosenthal Short Order Dad earned his professional culinary degree and performed stand-up in NYC’s comedy clubs while president of an international ad agency. He hosted his own TV show and writes for the Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, and The Daily Meal.
Stacy Morrison
Stacy Morrison is a mother, magazine editor and writer living in Brooklyn. She’ll always consider herself a single mom, even though she has a boyfriend (who her son wishes she would marry already). Her divorce memoir, Falling Apart In One Piece: An Optimist’s Journey Through The Hell of Divorce, was published in 2010.
Vanessa Boz
After having co-founded and sold the kids’ trade show Bubble, Vanessa launched BozAround, an inspiring travel blog for modern families. She’s also the UK correspondent to Milk Magazine, and just spent six months traveling around the world with her husband and two children.
Jennifer Cooper
Jennifer Cooper is a mother, toy maker and chief blogger of Classic Play. After spending years helping parents understand their kids, she took some time off study her own, during which time she created the small toy line Ellie Bellie Kids. Her work has appeared in magazines, most recently in Anorak.
Jennie Tung
Jennie Tung is the deputy editor of Redbook, Cookie’s former beauty and health director, and the mother of two boys, Alex, 5, and Ben, 2. We love that she’ll admit that her perfect tousled-chic updo is in place to cover greasy hair and gray roots.
Kiera Coffee
Kiera Coffee has been creating interior design stories for more than ten years, working most recently as the home editor for Cookie. She has an eye for the beautiful and the absurd in equal measures, and is currently working with Todd Oldham on a design book to be published by Ammo books in 2012.
Stephanie Nicks
Stephanie Nicks, mother of 7-year-old twins, is our SoCal editor, keeping us abreast of all-important micro and macro trends on the left coast. The Santa Barbara-based tastemaker and former photo producer can throw a dinner party on a moment’s notice that we can only wish we could replicate.
Juliana Sohn
A renowned commercial and fine-art photographer, Juliana Sohn has shot everything from portraits for W magazine to IBM campaigns. She’s also a tastemaker, an ideas machine, and a Momfilter secret weapon. The mother of two boys, Forrest and Emmett, 7 and 4, Juliana lives in New York City.
Dana Gallagher
An established photographer in the worlds of food, interiors, and lifestyle, Dana is also passionate about curating her own world. Gardening, cooking, crafting, decorating, and her daughter, Imogen, 3, are the subjects of the addictive blog The Stuff to Remember.
Megan Kaplan
Megan Kaplan has contributed to Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, Town & Country, and the former Cookie magazine. After spending years as a magazine editor in Manhattan, she now writes from the land of 10,000 lakes—and lives by one, in Minneapolis—with her husband and their three young daughters (ages 5, 2 1/2, and 7 months).
Amy Gropp Forbes
A consummate creative, Amy has worn just about every hat at some point: graphic designer, pastry chef, food editor at Martha Stewart Living, and creator of kids’ clothing line Mr. Tiny. She lives with her husband; her twin sons Owen and Oliver, 8; and daughter Bea, 4, in Brooklyn.
Erica Dublin
Erica Dublin is the creator of See Jane Fly, a popular travel site dedicated to making travel fun and accessible. She is a regular contributor to Fitness Magazine, Self, The New York Times, Real Simple, Brides, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and AOL, and is the mother of 2-year-old Grant.
Kierna Mayo
With a 20-year career in magazine journalism, writer/editor Kierna Mayo currently writes for several national women’s magazines including: Marie Claire, Glamour, Essence, and Seventeen. Mayo was the founding editor in chief of Honey magazine and most recently of Tyra.com. Kierna lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two children.
Anni Daulter
Anni Daulter, MSW, is a cook, author, advocate of sustainable living, and mother of four. She recently launched a new magazine and online mom community, Bamboo-Conscious Family Living Magazine and is the author of Organically Raised: Conscious Cooking for Babies & Toddlers and Ice Pop Joy.
Maca Huneeus
Maca Huneeus, a Chilean native who lives in San Francisco, thinks nothing of jumping on a plane at a moment’s notice with her four girls, ages 3 to 13. We are inspired by the ease with which she can pull together an outfit or an entire house with her eclectic finds from around the globe.
Cristina Villegas-Boujnah
Cristina Villegas-Boujnah, mother of two girls, is a kids’ stylist, the designer of the Yoya Collection, and the owner of Yoya, a supremely cool kid store in NYC. She just launched an interiors consulting company, focusing on kids’ bedrooms and playrooms.
Mei Tao
An accomplished fashion photographer who is best known for her work on Crewcuts, Mei Tao is also Momfilter’s secret fashion weapon. She knows about every trend–and sample sale–long before anyone else, and has the best style of anyone we know.
