Sam Manzella

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Location
Brooklyn, NY
School
Honors College at SUNY New Paltz
Expertise
Queer-Owned Home Brands, Viral Cleaning & Organizing Hacks, The Astrology Of Home
  • A veteran of LGBTQ+ media brands, Sam often writes about home and lifestyle through the lens of queer identity and community.
  • In 2023, they won an NLGJA Excellence in Journalism Award for their reported feature on challenges that disproportionately impact LGBTQ+ elders, including discrimination and houselessness.
  • They once interviewed a "glamour witch" about how to use color magic to decorate your living space (true story!).

Experience

Sam has worked as a professional writer, editor, and multimedia journalist for more than seven years. Their work has appeared in dozens of print and digital publications, including Them, Apartment Therapy, and Hunker Home, to name just a few. (Fun fact: They also moonlight as a consulting astrologer and have penned horoscopes for popular astrology apps like STAR/CHILD.) Prior to going freelance full-time in 2022, Sam was an associate editor at Logo News, Paramount Global's now-defunct online LGBTQ+ magazine, where they interviewed multiple celebrities and even won a GLAAD Media Award for a video series they co-produced. They are a graduate of the American Society of Magazine Editors' prestigious summer journalism intensive for rising college seniors, which helped launch their journalism career.

Education

Sam holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the Honors College at SUNY New Paltz.

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