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Lives In
New York, New York
Education
- University of California, Davis
Expertise
- Wellness
- Leigh Weingus is a New York-based freelance writer with a decade of experience in media.
- She has bylines at Glamour, HuffPost, Well + Good and more.
- Currently, she is a contributing writer for Byrdie where she covers the wellness space.
Experience
Prior to going freelance, Leigh held in-house senior editor positions at HuffPost, Elite Daily, and Mindbodygreen, and has been contributing to Byrdie since June 2019.
Education
Leigh has her BA in Communications from University of California, Davis.
About Byrdie and Dotdash
Byrdie is part of the Dotdash publishing family. For more than 20 years, Dotdash brands have been helping people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We are one of the top-20 largest content publishers on the Internet according to comScore, a leading Internet measurement company, and reach more than 30% of the U.S. population every month. Our brands collectively have won more than 20 industry awards in the last year alone and, most recently, Dotdash was named Publisher of the Year by Digiday, a leading industry publication.