Ashlea Halpern

Minnevangelist

Co-founder & Editor

I am the editor at large for AFAR Media; founding editor of The Urbanist, a pop-up travel blog from New York Magazine; and a devoted service journalist whose writing and photography appear in Condé Nast Traveler, Airbnb Magazine, Bon Appétit, Travel + Leisure, TIME, Midwest Living, Artful Living, Minnesota Monthly, and more.

My areas of expertise include travel and lifestyle, food and drink, art, culture, design, shopping, outdoor adventure, and entrepreneurship. From October 2014 to February 2018, I traveled full-time for my work, mostly in Asia, Australia, North America, Europe, and the Arctic. After criss-crossing the U.S.A. twice by hatchback and living abroad in Thailand, I settled in glorious Minneapolis and co-founded Minnevangelist, a website devoted to spreading the gospel of Minnesota's greatness.

I have been featured as a travel expert in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, and Forbes and invited to speak on tourism panels hosted by Explore Minnesota and the Star Tribune. I have also guest lectured on travel writing at Stanford University and appeared on more than a dozen TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts, including WNBC's "Today in New York," Fox 5's "Good Day New York," Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul's "The Jason Show," the "RMWorldTravel with Robert & Mary Carey and Rudy Maxa" radio hour, Bon Appétit's "Foodcast," and Away's "Airplane Mode."

In my ye olde New York days, I served as the special projects editor at Bon Appétit, producing feature and cover packages, editing the magazine's front-of-book "Starters" section, and overseeing celebrity and travel content. Before that, I worked in weeklies — as the editor of the ASME-winning "Strategist" section at New York Magazine, as the senior editor and editor at large of Time Out New York, and as the associate editor of Philadelphia City Paper, where I wrote long-form investigative cover stories about America's unscrupulous funeral industry and the plight of the modern-day eunuch. I'm versatile like that.

I also produce creative marketing content and social media campaigns for a variety of travel and retail clients, including CVBs, DMOs, and commercial entities such as Airbnb, Royal Caribbean, Silversea Cruises, Visit California, Food Network, Target, Ralph Lauren, Etsy, Illy, MM.LaFleur, Dorsia, and Dr. Mehmet Oz.

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Monday, September 14, 2020

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