Author, Entrepreneur, Product Manager
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Product Manager, Social Media at Glam Media
- Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer at StyleMob.com
- Author at Quirkyalone
- Author at To-Do List
- Past
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- Essayist at Various magazines, newspapers, and books
- Writing Instructor at MediaBistro
- Editor-in-chief & Founder at To-Do List Magazine
- Communications Consultant at Abernathy Anderson
- Education
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- Barnard College
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- Amherst College
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Sasha Cagen’s Summary
Author and entrepreneur who builds communities around passions and new ideas.
Sasha Cagen’s Specialties:
Product marketing, product development and management, branding, viral marketing, writing, blogging, publishing, public relations, public speaking, trend-spotting, community-building, event-producing, problem-solving, and teaching.
Sasha Cagen’s Experience
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Product Manager, Social Media
Glam Media
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Product Manager for Glam Apps, an app platform that offers power tools for blogs and websites. Check out this interview about Glam Apps on "Nerd Stalker": http://www.nerdstalker.com/2008/08/glam-nerd-stalker-5-part-3.html
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Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer
StyleMob.com
(Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Co-founded StyleMob.com, a street fashion social network called "addictive" by the SF Chronicle and "a Facebook for fashion" by the New York Daily News. StyleMob allows users to upload photos of their outfits, describing what they're wearing and where they got it, and to vote on the best looks of the day.
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Author
Quirkyalone
(Publishing industry)
December 2000 — Present (9 years )
My book Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics has received attention everywhere from CNN 360 with Anderson Cooper to the New York Times, USA Today, and London Observer.
Quirkyalone has since been translated and published in Brazil, Germany, and Denmark.
I also started International Quirkyalone Day, an alternative to Valentine's Day that has been celebrated in more than 40 cities, in cities as farflung as Glasgow, New Delhi and Sydney.
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Author
To-Do List
(Publishing industry)
July 1999 — Present (10 years 5 months)
My book To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soulmate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us has received attention everywhere from NPR's Talk of the Nation to USA Today. To-Do List celebrates the world of the overlooked and mundane, letting our lists serve as unique windows into who we are. Nothing is more revealing than someone's to-do list.
My magazine To-Do List was named Best New Magazine in the Reader's Choice Awards, 2000, in Utne's Alternative Press Awards.
My blog todolistblog.com continues as a place where people share their real, handwritten lists and the stories behind them. -
Essayist
Various magazines, newspapers, and books
(Writing and Editing industry)
January 1996 — June 2007 (11 years 6 months)
Published a variety of personal essays in newspapers and magazines including the Village Voice, Utne, Men's Health, Women's Health, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, 7 x 7, and lots of anthologies,
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Writing Instructor
MediaBistro
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
Taught "Personal Essay Boot Camp."
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Editor-in-chief & Founder
To-Do List Magazine
(Publishing industry)
July 1999 — July 2003 (4 years 1 month)
Started To-Do List, a magazine of meaningful minutiae that used the idea of a to-do list as a jumping-off point to explore the details of everyday life.
Among other major recognition, To-Do List was named Best New Magazine of 2000, Reader's Choice, in Utne's Alternative Press Awards. -
Communications Consultant
Abernathy Anderson
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
August 1997 — June 1999 (1 year 11 months)
Executed public relations and communications campaigns for labor unions, primarily SEIU's campaigns to organize hospital workers and janitors in California.
Sasha Cagen’s Education
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Barnard College
1993 — 1996
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Columbia University in the City of New York
BA , History, Sociology, Women's Studies , 1993 — 1996
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Amherst College
1991 — 1992
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Sasha Cagen’s Interests:
writing, editing, publishing, social networking, street fashion
Sasha Cagen’s Groups:
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Girls in Tech - Global
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