Rachel Lobdell was formerly editorial director at Fortune. She has previously worked at VICE, the Wall Street Journal, Fusion, the Sun Sentinel, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huntsville Times. She has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami, where she taught coding to journalism students and was a 2016 member of the ONA-Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media. She’s a part of Digital Women Leaders, an initiative that provides free coaching for women in journalism. A native of St. Louis, Rachel earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.