Emily Cegielski is an award-winning, New York City-based multimedia journalist and Senior Editor at Worth Media.
Prior to joining the Worth team, she worked as a Senior Editor at the New York Observer, where she built out its Business, Tech and Innovation vertical—refining beats, recruiting expert contributors and leading a team of staff reporters and freelancers. Previously, she worked as Director of Digital Media at High Times, where she drove creation of cannabis-related content; managed social media; planned and executed marketing campaigns for events; covered breaking news; edited content; and led a site redesign.
In the past, she has worked as a staff writer, photographer, designer, copy editor, fact-checker, section editor, managing editor and senior editor for a wide array of newspapers, magazines and websites. Follow her on Twitter @emilyceg
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Health+Wealth Day 2: the Post-COVID Economy Demands More Connection
“In order to solve the human progress issues—delivery of health care, delivery of education, infrastructure, climate change—there’s no doubt in my mind, we need economic growth,” said economist and author Dambisa Moyo at the opening of the second day of the of the Health+Wealth of America conference Wednesday. In a gripping conversation with Techonomy editor-in-chief […]
By Emily Cegielski
Apr 22, 2021
Innovation
Business Responsibility Emerges as a Major Theme at Health+Wealth Conference
William McDonough says that when they figure out their strategy, most businesses start with value and then set their goals, benchmarking financial and product targets, instead of first focusing on values. He sees a new world arising where companies have to lead with their hearts, and move from values to principles, visions, goals, strategies, tactics, […]
By Emily Cegielski
Dec 4, 2020
David Agus
David Agus at Health+Wealth: All Three Vaccines Keep Everyone Out of Hospital
Dr. David Agus, a USC medical school and engineering school leader, has been immersed in fighting the pandemic since January. At the Health+Wealth of America conference on Tuesday December 1, he showed enormous enthusiasm about all three of the new vaccines that are approaching approval. He told the audience that aside from their impressive efficacy […]
By Emily Cegielski
Dec 2, 2020
Business
Health + Wealth of America—Day Three: On the Ground in Muskegon, Learning at Ericsson, and 1-800-FLOWERS’ Pandemic Journey
Day three of Health + Wealth of America kicked off with “Voices of American Resilience,” moderated by Esther Dyson, executive founder of The Way to Wellville, a nonprofit project devoted to defining and testing models for producing community health.
By Emily Cegielski
Oct 16, 2020
AOL
Health + Wealth Day Two: Summers, Case, Scaramucci, & Krawcheck
To kick off day two of Health + Wealth of America, Lawrence H. Summers, president emeritus of Harvard, was interviewed by Bob Diamond, CEO of Atlas Merchant Capital. “This will be a moment historians in 2200 points back to when they look at our era,” Summers said, suggesting 2020 could be remembered like 1914, 1940, 1929 or 1776 because of how much dramatic change this year has ushered in.
By Emily Cegielski
Oct 15, 2020
Artificial Intelligence
How Katica Roy Is Using AI to Bring Equality Into the Workplace
To close the gender pay gap, we can’t start by talking about pay. And that’s where Roy’s SaaS platform Pipeline steps in.
By Emily Cegielski
Jul 23, 2020
AJR
Techonomy Virtual Day Four: Making the SDGs Sexy
Day four of the weeklong Techonomy Virtual: Reset + Restore was all about the connection between tech and the improving society, especially achieving the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030.
By Emily Cegielski
Jul 17, 2020
Business
Techonomy Virtual Day Two: Tech Intersects With Politics
The heart of Tuesday’s program was the intersection of politics and technology. The stellar lineup included a discussion about our current global mess between Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group, and controversial commentator Andrew Keen; a deep dive into the destructive nature of internet giants with Harvard Kennedy School’s Dipayan Ghosh; a stirring conversation with Silicon Harlem CEO and co-founder Clayton Banks about the struggle for Black tech in New York; and finally, an interview with Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff.
By Emily Cegielski
Jul 15, 2020
Business
Global Ventures VC Firm Boosts Health Care Access in Emerging Market Regions
Noor Sweid, founder of Dubai-based venture capital firm Global Ventures, is disrupting the world by investing in companies tackling health care inclusion and financial equity in emerging markets.
By Emily Cegielski
Jun 29, 2020
Business
The Agency’s Mauricio Umansky and Farrah Brittany on the Future of Real Estate
Could FaceTime showings and virtual tours become our new reality?
By Emily Cegielski
Apr 30, 2020Newsletter Subscriptions
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