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I'm a research associate at Bear Stearns, where I focus on REITs. When I'm not at 383 Madison, I edit the New York section of Hitotoki.org.

From July 2003 until August 2007, I was a reporter and writer at Forbes, covering investing topics for different parts of the Forbes organization: for Forbes Magazine, Forbes.com, Best of the Web and the Forbes Newsletter Group, where I covered art collecting for The Forbes Collector. I also spent nine months at Forbes' Silicon Valley bureau in 2005 and 2006.

In 2001, I graduated with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. While I was at Penn, I was the editor in chief of 34th Street Magazine, the school's student-run, weekly arts and entertainment magazine. In addition, I minored in music theory.

During the two years between graduating and working at Forbes, I did all sorts of things. I wrote for jazz magazines, worked on business plans, created a tiny bit of advertising copy and even worked as the assistant to a comedian for the better part of a year (which means everything from fighting parking tickets to buying organic carrots for her dog).