DAO Editors and Advisors
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Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief at CoinDesk
Former deputy editor-in-chief at CoinDesk, manager, editor and reporter at Bloomberg News for 16 years, closely covering financial markets, M&A and market structure. Also worked for Dow Jones Newswires and written for The Wall Street Journal. Gerald Loeb Award winner
Former Regulatory and Policy Reporter at Unchained
Former regulatory and policy reporter at Unchained, where she covered how crypto intersects with politics, law and society. Previously a staff reporter at Protocol breaking tech news, and has bylines in Fast Company, The San Francisco Examiner, SF Weekly and other outlets. A magna-cum-laude Media Studies graduate of UC Berkeley, she's known for FOIA-driven scoops and deep dives into financial access and lending.
Founder and CEO of Media Luna
Founder and CEO of consulting firm Media Luna. Over a decade of experience covering fintech, blockchain, and crypto. Previously, Senior Writer at Fortune and Senior Editor at Forbes. Co-founder of the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers, and a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University.
Former Senior Policy Reporter and Assistant Editor at The Block
Former Senior Policy Reporter and Assistant Editor at The Block, steering coverage of crypto legislation, sanctions and cyber-crime. Previously, she was an investigative reporter at CoinDesk, pioneering blockchain-data-based investigations focused on Eastern Europe and Russia. Earlier in her career she covered Russian civil society for Novaya Gazeta and other outlets. Knight-trained at Columbia Journalism School (M.S.) and a graduate of St. Petersburg State University and the Higher School of Economics, she specializes in privacy, compliance and the geopolitical stakes of decentralized tech.
Former CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist
Former CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist. He has written about crypto since 2013 for outlets including Fortune, Slate, and Aeon. Author of "Bitcoin is Magic," an introduction to Bitcoin's social dynamics. Former academic sociologist of technology with a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Iowa.
Founder of The Defiant
Founder of The Defiant, a media company focusing on decentralized finance, and the author of The Infinite Machine, the most read book on the history of Ethereum. Previously, she was a markets and crypto reporter at Bloomberg News based in New York, Madrid and Buenos Aires. She has an MSc in Journalism from Northwestern University and is originally from Santiago, Chile.
Former Managing Editor at CoinDesk
Editor-in-Chief of Use Case magazine. Content programmer for crypto conferences. Served as CoinDesk’s deputy editor-in-chief until July 2022. Prior to joining CoinDesk in November 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a news site focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Before that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
