About
Emily Brady is a freelance writer based in Northern California. She began her career as a reporter at The Daily Journal in Caracas, Venezuela, where she learned how to meet deadlines and sat out a short-lived coup with a bottle of rum. After earning a master’s from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Emily was a regular contributor to the City section of The New York Times. Her first article for the paper, a story about the city’s homeless, is included in the anthology More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section. Her writing has also appeared in the Village Voice, Time, Smithsonian.com, the Columbia Journalism Review, and other publications. She is currently working on a book about the California marijuana industry.
