Mentors

Sherri Smith

Editor-in-Chief, Laptop Mag

As Laptop’s EIC, Sherri is the first woman of color serving as editor in chief of a legacy consumer tech publication. With over ten years in the business, there are few people who know the beat better.

Roger Cheng

Head of News, CNET

Roger Cheng is the executive editor in charge of CNET News, managing a global team of reporters writing everything from breaking stories to investigative pieces and long-form features. He also hosts CNET’s The Daily Charge podcast and dabbles in his own stories from time to time. He’s covered tech for more than two decades, both for CNET and with The Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones Newswires.

Lisa Eadicicco

Sr. Tech Correspondent, Business Insider

Lisa is a senior correspondent at Business Insider, where she helps lead the publication’s coverage of consumer technology by reviewing the latest tech gadgets, writing columns on the biggest tech products from Apple, Google, and others, and reporting feature stories. She has more than 7 years of experience covering the tech industry and previously spent nearly three years as TIME magazine’s technology columnist. She got her start as a staff writer for Laptop Mag and Tom’s Guide.

Dieter Bohn

Executive Editor, The Verge

Dieter Bohn is the executive editor of The Verge. He writes the Processor email newsletter, hosts the Processor video series on YouTube, and cohosts the popular Vergecast podcast. Prior to co-founding The Verge in 2011, he founded influential smartphone news sites like Android Central and iMore. Dieter was a PhD candidate in English at the University of Minnesota where he helped students and faculty use web technologies to expand academic discourse.

Davey Alba

Technology reporter, New York Times

Davey Alba is a technology reporter for the New York Times, covering online disinformation and its global harms.

Alan Henry

Service Editor, Wired

Alan Henry is the service editor at WIRED in New York City. He was previously Smarter Living editor at The New York Times and editor in chief of Lifehacker. He has written and edited stories about productivity and technology for over a decade.”

Jessica Conditt

Sr. Editor, Engadget

Reporting for outlets including GT, Joystiq and Engadget over the past 10 years, Jess is a staple of video game journalism with a reputation for covering independent and underrepresented developers.

Kwame Opam

Sr. Editor, Digital Storytelling and Training, New York Times

Kwame Opam is a Senior Editor at The New York Times, where he focuses on digital storytelling, strategy and training. He started his career at Gizmodo in 2010, and covered technology and culture at The Daily and The Verge.

Anthony Ha

Sr. Writer, Techcrunch

Anthony Ha is a senior writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media and advertising, writes the Daily Crunch newsletter, and co-hosts the Original Content podcast. Previously, he worked as a tech writer at Adweek, a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and a local government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance. He lives in New York City.

Daniel Howley

Technology Editor, Yahoo Finance

Dan Howley is the tech editor at Yahoo Finance and plays with toys all day.

Chris Ip

Features Editor, Engadget

Riley MacLeod

Editor at Large, Kotaku

Riley MacLeod is Editor-at-Large at the gaming site Kotaku. Prior to coming to journalism, he mentored emerging trans writers and co-founded an award-winning small press dedicated to trans fiction. He is a passionate advocate for trans writers in all genres.