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Rufus Griscom co-founded Nerve.com in 1997 and was the company's first editor. Since then, he has seen the company through many stages, including the launch of Nerve Personals and the creation of Spring Street Networks, which was spun off as a separate company and later sold. Prior to Nerve, Rufus worked in book publishing, not to mention construction and pizza delivery. His writing has appeared in Publishers Weekly, The Baltimore Sun, Wired and The Wall Street Journal, among other places. He graduated from Brown University in 1991.
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VP, Sales and Marketing and Co-publisher
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Alisa Volkman has served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Nerve Media since 2001. She has grown Nerve ad sales into Nerve Media’s largest source of revenue. Prior to joining Nerve, she was a story editor at Julia Roberts's Shoelace Productions, an assignment editor at CNN in Atlanta and a slave at Oliver Stone’s Illusion Entertainment in Los Angeles. She is the mother of toddler Declan and wife of Babble co-publisher and Nerve Media CEO Rufus Griscom. |
Editorial Director, Nerve Media
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Michael Martin joined Nerve as editor-in-chief in 2002. Under his editorship, Nerve has received several Webby Award nominations and its first National Magazine Award nomination for general excellence online. |
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Babble editor-in-chief
Ada Calhoun is also a blogger for AOL News, a consulting editor at Nerve.com, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine, Marie Claire, Salon.com and the anthology One of the Guys. |
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Babble editor Gwynne Watkins is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has appeared both online and in print. She is a consulting editor at Nerve.com, as well as a playwright and a lyricist. Her most recent show, the children's musical Space Pirates, premiered in May. |
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Babble editorial assistant April Peveteaux is a writer and performer. Her work can be seen in
RADAR and The Life and Times of the Mummy. She lives in Brooklyn
with her husband, daughter and cocker spaniel. |
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Sam Apple's work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ESPN The Magazine, and Slate.com, among many other publications. His first
book, Schlepping Through the Alps, was named a finalist for the PEN America award for a first work of nonfiction. In 2005 he received the
annual Faux Faulkner award. Apple's next book, American Parent, will be published in 2008. |
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Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV. |
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Mandalee Meisner wrote and designed for 4kids.org and New Moon magazine before joining the Nerve staff in 2005.
She has illustrated for ElleGirl magazine, and currently lives in Brooklyn with her collection of antique paperweights. She does cartwheels on demand. |
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Charles Yesuwan
wandered onto an airplane and ended up in New York City. Like most Seattle-ites, Charles harbors a love of coffee, flannel and the great outdoors. He also maintains a love/hate relationship with a certain software company. Whenever he's not working, you can find him tossing back a few at an open bar somewhere in Lower Manhattan. |
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Yong Choi
has been working at Material Media since 2005. He develops code for both Nerve.com and Babble.com, and maintains Material Media's Community Server codebase.
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Alexandra Godfrey graduated from the best four (and a half) years of her life in upstate New York a year ago and is still trying to get over it. She misses the numbing sensation that comes with lake-effect weather, sideways snow and cheap liquor. She spent half of the past year pretending to be someone else in a soul-sucking job and the other half becoming intimate with her couch, Jack Kerouac, and terrible daytime television (which she cannot get enough of). She told her parents she was “writing a novel”—which she was (sort of). Besides that, her favorite pastime is downing entire family-size bags of Cool Ranch Doritos in one sitting and then hiding the evidence before her boyfriend gets home from work. She currently resides Murray Hill, Manhattan. |
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Caitlin M. is a recent college graduate, a former Californian, and a maker of wild excuses (freelance). She is an avid knitter, a trained bookbinder, and spends more time than she’d like to admit trying to perfect cooking with both chocolate and cayenne pepper. In addition to her more grandmotherly hobbies, she spends her time writing flash fiction, defending the city of Los Angeles, and daydreaming of Wyoming. |
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Lauren De Luca is an NYC native who recently returned home after a four-year stint in the icy throes of Rochester, New York, where she studied photography, refined her beer pong skills, and learned to embrace her inner geek. A fan of llamas, bad TV, and boycotting umbrellas, this girl enjoys spending her free time sipping Belgian beer on the LES and discussing simpler topics such as number theory. She currently lives in NoHo with a bipolar cat named Jäger. Her photos are at http://lbd0278.cias.rit.edu. |
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Derrick Sanskrit was born and raised on Long Island, New York. The
Rick Rubin/Busta Rhymes part of Long Island, not the Martha Stewart/P.
Diddy part. Despite his slovenly appearance and shaggy hair, Derrick
claims to care about fashion and style. He is a self-professed geek in
a variety of fields including typography, graphic design, comic books,
music and cartoons. He has terrible posture and icy blue eyes.
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