Rachel Chang

With traditional journalism values, creative magazine strategies and an innate audience-first mentality, Rachel Chang is a leading editorial expert who has been an editor at top entertainment and celeb publications (editor in chief of best-selling newsstand teen magazine J-14, senior editor at Us Weekly, entertainment editor at CosmoGIRL!). She's now a regular contributor to Condé Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure, and has written for Lonely Planet, Washington Post, BBC, New York Times for Kids, Thrillist, Popsugar, United's Hemispheres, Airbnb Magazine, Mic, The Discoverer, Rolling Stone. She's also been the editor-in-chief of Centennial Media’s World’s Most Amazing Places special issues and publisher at Travelzoo.

Bridging the print and digital worlds, Rachel has the instincts to produce crisp and compelling content, ranging from solid investigative reporting and clever features to SEO-driven news pieces and innovative video packages. Known for her ability to combine the visual (she was the Us Weekly Hot Pics editor) with strong writing (from quippy one-liners to long-form profiles), she has the innate sense to cater content for any audience, ranging from her decade as a tween/teen magazine editor to her email marketing experience geared toward retirees.

As a travel writer, she’s an avid experiential world explorer, who focuses on solo travel and responsible tourism. In the celebrity space, she's interviewed Taylor Swift, Martha Stewart, Kevin Costner, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Harry Styles, and Kim Kardashian and now focuses on the nostalgia and diversity beats. She also founded the Teen Icon Awards, which “broke the internet" in its premiere year.

Rachel was inducted onto Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications' Wall of Fame in 2012.