Blaire Briody is a freelance journalist living in Bushwick. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Popular Science, The Riverdale Press, among others. She grew up in the the mountains of Northern California and studied useless things like math before deciding to become a journalist. Her reportage has taken her everywhere from job hunting with ex-cons in Queens to ziplining in the Caribbean. You can read her work at www.blairebriody.com.