About Me

Hi, I’m Neha.

I’m a seasoned start-up veteran with two decades of experience building and growing rocketship consumer brands with clear points of view—from Refinery29 to Girlboss.

I’m an operator, strategist, and storyteller. I love building and nurturing teams, scaling startups, and growing communities. As a writer, thinking, and editor, most of my work sits at the intersection of culture and politics, with a focus on the issues that most impact the lives of professional women.

“Success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous.”

— Arundhati Roy

I spent the bulk of my career to date in publishing, first as an editor at print magazines; then leading editorial at Refinery29, growing my team from 8 bloggers to over 100 journalists, reporters, and editors, while transforming the site from a NYC fashion publication reaching 2M monthly unique users to a global lifestyle brand reaching an audience of 35M—and with a distributed, cross-platform reach of hundreds of millions.

Later, as the EIC and COO of Girlboss, I built a media and events business alongside founder Sophia Amoruso. Over the course of three years, we hosted five sold-out Girlboss Rallies, launched a community tech product, built out the award-winning Girlboss Radio Network, and awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant funding to female founders.

Most recently, I've been at PICTURESTART, building out the consumer brand, growing an audience from 0 to 500K+ followers and subscribers in two years; incubating IP; and standing up new business lines in audio and publishing.

I’ve interviewed some of the most interesting women of our time, from Hillary Clinton to M.I.A. to Samantha Power to Madonna to Tina Brown to Valerie Jarrett.

I’ve appeared live on MSNBC, Katie Couric Live, Cheddar, CNN, and more. And I’ve given keynotes on stages ranging from Social Media Week to SXSW to Generation W.

I have a degree in English literature from Princeton University — and harbor a fondness for em dashes along with a very real antipathy to emoticons.