Mallory Carra is an award-winning journalist, editor, and professor based in Los Angeles with nearly 20 years of professional experience working with digital, audio, and print. Currently, Carra is a freelance podcast producer and writer, contributing articles to NBCU Academy’s Equity Lab and working on hit podcasts, like former USC provost Charles Zukoski’s Electric Futures, The Why Files, and Sarah Turney’s Voices for Justice.

For more than 5 years, Carra worked at Spotify, where she was involved in top-rated podcasts on the platform, such as Disappearances, Serial Killers, and Conspiracy Theories.

As a journalist and editor, Carra has written for outlets such as the BBC World Service, E! News, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, the New York Daily News, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among many others. She worked as an entertainment editor at Bustle for more than 5 years and began her journalism at the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee and the News & Observer in North Carolina. 

Additionally, she co-leads the Asian American Journalists Association’s (AAJA) college journalism program, VOICES. Carra is an alum of AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program and Poynter’s Lead with Influence.

A native of New York City, Carra has an MFA in screenwriting from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and a BA in journalism from New York University. She is a longtime member of the Asian American Journalist Association and the Writers Guild of America. She also runs West Coast Media Jobs, a journalism jobs newsletter focusing on California and the Pacific Northwest.