Contributors

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Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall is a Mount Lookout-based freelance writer/editor specializing in covering architectural and design trends. His career includes stints with the Cincinnati Business Courier, the Cincinnati Enquirer, Fatbrain.com (an online bookseller) and Boutique Design magazine. He's also happy to be a later-in-life dad who adopted two children from Guatemala with his wife.

Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney is a reformed corporate communications senior executive. She has also worked in the advertising industry and founded The Mooney Group, LLC, a boutique public relations practice. She is an avid adventurer and traveler, which includes climbing/hiking, open water swimming, and downhill skiing. She is a downtown resident and is married to Donald Mooney. She has two grown daughters.


Jessica Esemplare

Jessica Esemplare is the managing editor of Soapbox Cincinnati and a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Shortly after completing her degree in magazine journalism, she began covering local and regional topics at The Cincinnati Herald and, later, as an editor at Ohio Magazine. Her writing has also been featured in U.S. News and World Report.

Carey Hoffman

As a Cincinnatian for almost all his life, Carey Hoffman has written about numerous subjects involving almost every Greater Cincinnati neighborhood. He enjoys history — both local and beyond — reading, anything to do with golf, most things related to basketball, and all things that make Cincinnati a more interesting and better place.

Sarah Dupee

Sarah Dupee is a freelance writer, teacher, translator, and musician with a background in French and Francophone Studies.

Connie Springer

Connie Springer is a publicist, writer, photographer, and watercolorist. View her work at her website and portfolio.

Travis Estell

Travis Estell is a Soapbox contributor and has been a contributor to UrbanCincy since 2009. After growing up on Cincinnati’s east side in Goshen, Travis earned an Electronic Media degree from the University of Cincinnati in 2009. Since then, Travis has been working throughout the United States as a web development consultant. After living in both Clifton Heights and Northside, Travis currently calls Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood home. Contact him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @taestell.

Josh Purnell

Josh Purnell is a Cincinnati-based photographer and videographer as well as a regular contributor to Soapbox Cincinnati.

Karen Arnett

Karen Arnett is President of the Mt. Healthy Renaissance Project, a non-profit community development group of neighbors working together for the love of Mt. Healthy.

Patrice Watson

Patrice Watson is publisher / managing editor of Soapbox Cincinnati.

Jerry Jackson

Jerry Jackson is the managing editor of Soapbox and has a passion for technology and innovation. He has lived and worked in the greater Cincinnati area since December 2000.


Gabrielle Nicole Hammarlund

Gabrielle is currently studying anthropology and women’s gender studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is a Cleveland native and explores social issues through photojournalism.


Michael Woodson

Michael Woodson works at Blue Manatee Children’s Bookstore and is a freelance writer living in Saint Bernard with his husband and their Chihuahua. His writing credits include Artists Magazine, Pastel Journal, Watercolor Artist and VMSD magazine. See more of his pieces at his website, www.michaelwoodson.com.

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