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Tara Cox is a New York-based food writer and magazine editor, most recently managing editor of Real Simple, and has also held roles at Rachael Ray Every Day, Men’s Journal, Popular Mechanics, Food Network Magazine, The Daily Front Row, Details, Us Weekly and others. She was the founding editor-in-chief of the award-winning RVLiving magazine and author of Airstream: The Silver RV, which New York Magazine’s “Approval Matrix” dubbed “Highbrow/Brilliant.” She recently launched The Promiscuous Palate, a Substack newsletter devoted to a wide-ranging definition of good taste — from diners to Delmonico’s. She is a longtime faculty member at Columbia University’s Publishing Course, where she guides students through the evolving business of media brands and how to make content connect.

Joyce Byrne is Alberta Magazine Publishers’ past President and an award-winning veteran of the Canadian magazine industry. She has led publishing, creative, marketing and sales teams and boards in Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary, and has worked on nearly every type of magazine, from literary to light industrial, with consumer, business, visual art, health and cannabis in between. She is the recipient of the National Media Awards Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement (2018), AMPA’s Achievement in Publishing Award (2018) as well as the NABS Honour Roll (2013) and Advertising Club of Edmonton Fellowship Award (2014). Joyce is AMPA’s curriculum consultant and the host of the Strategies for Canadian Magazines series. Her personal brand is I Love Magazines.