Maegan Carberry

Maegan Carberry has been a provocative independent voice in our national conversation, working as a journalist, media strategist, and digital entrepreneur for 15 years. She provides media strategies to organizations and individuals, and is an adjunct instructor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. In 2016, Maegan will release her first novel, Do I Have To Vote For Hillary Clinton? The book chronicles the rise of ambitious political journalist Amy Underwood, her English bulldog Mindy Kaling, and a variety of adventures that would make Susan B. Anthony proud and Bridget Jones giggle. 

Maegan began her career as a reporter and columnist with the Chicago Tribune, where she wrote some amusing columns she really hopes you won't google and interviewed exciting folks like Jennifer Lopez, Hugh Hefner, and an up-and-coming senator named Barack Obama. She later worked as Arianna Huffington's Chief-of-Staff during the early days of The Huffington Post, was Communications Director of Rock the Vote, and the first curator of Upworthy.  

When she is not working, Maegan is designing and sewing dresses for 100 inspiring women through her project, birdbrain. birdbrain benefits the creation of The Long-term Guide to Surviving Sexual Assault.