Karrie Witkin
Director, Editorial Operations

Karrie develops and edits content that demystifies the creative process and encourages self-expression. She hails from the publishing industry, where she held editorial roles at Abrams, Penguin Random House, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her top travel priorities include going to flea markets, small dog parks, and pastry shops. To relax, she enjoys looking at images of sleepy chihuahuas and organizing things by color.

Katie Frankowicz
Copy Editor

Katie is a journalist on the West Coast who covers the environment and education for a newspaper that still has its own printing press. She prefers thrift store outfits and hand-me-downs and thinks often of an Iranian man she met on the commuter train to downtown Chicago who was wearing gray sweatpants, plush leather loafers without socks, a luxurious navy wool peacoat, impeccable facial hair and gold jewelry. Will she ever achieve this style goal? Who can say. Meanwhile, she can tell you a lot about government efforts to control double-crested cormorants.

Anna Hou
Editor

Anna is a recent marketing college grad who (still) doesn't know what she wants to do in life. She has an online vintage shop, Red Bean Dream, that she runs with her sister, Ella, who makes crochet pieces for the shop. Drinking Taiwanese tea daily is a must for her, and she's deeply invested in ACG (Anime, Comics, and Games). Her current obsessions include Genshin Impact, building a wardrobe that would suit a posh, romantic, centuries-old academic vampire, and bread.

Elise Nye
Social Media Strategist

Based in Austin, TX, Elise can often be found swimming in vintage and secondhand clothes for her shop and weaving stories about the environment for her podcast. With a music industry and touring background, Elise is deeply looking forward to the return of live events. She also loves baking oatmeal cookies, playing D&D, learning to garden, and the color orange.

Emma Geddes
Designer

Emma spends her days in nonprofit community radio, and divides the rest of her time between her studio, cold Oregon beaches, and binging British panel quiz shows. Sometimes she sews her own clothes, which you can spot by their messy inner seams. Her major influences include: Lorenzo Milam, jewel tones, Mary Kate & Ashley's early non-Full House oeuvre ('92-'95), and D&D character alignment theory.

Iris Aguilar
Editor

Iris is a researcher with a background on biotechnology and environmental chemistry. She grew up in Tijuana, right on the Mexico/US border, and discovered the joy of vintage and secondhand as a teen when a friend took her to thrift shops and used bookstores in San Diego. She also loves reading, gardening, lifting heavy things, exploring different food cultures, and finding the science behind everyday life.

kat baus
Editor

kat is a writer, editor, and performance artist. She spent her undergraduate years at Harvard, where she studied English and drama and led community education and outreach projects on sexuality, consent, and harm reduction for drug and alcohol use. Since graduating, kat has directed plays at Dixon Place, The Tank, and The Brick in New York City; learned to mend her own clothes; and developed an inexhaustible love for telling stories about the messy lives of teenage monsters.

Kelsey Wolf
Designer

Kelsey works as a graphic designer in a higher education setting. She delights in the occasions when she can incorporate creativity, subtle animations, and hand drawn illustrations into her work. She enjoys foraging for edible plants and fungi, as well as materials for paper making. When she’s not wandering the forest, she spends her time binding tiny books, weaving baskets, being overdressed at estate sales, and learning to repair vintage clothing. She dreams of setting up her very own jewelry studio and training her cats to ride in a Victorian baby carriage.

Phoebe Bates
Editor

Phoebe is a competitive gymnastics coach based in Canada. While she enjoys teaching kids about the importance of a good handstand, Phoebe has always loved fashion and how it can be used as a means for self-expression. Although a brief stint at a fast fashion retailer left Phoebe dismayed about the industry, working on Slow Notion has reminded her why she loved fashion in the first place