About Us

Who We Are

HubPages is an open community of passionate people—writers, explorers, knowledge-seekers, interacting and informing one another, asking questions and finding answers. It is a rich and rewarding publishing platform with a unique set of tools and resources to help writers find and build an audience, easily create articles, and earn all sorts of rewards, from accolades to ad revenue. Over 29,000,000 people explore our Network Sites every month (sign up now and start writing!). Interested in writing for us? Check out our editorial policy.

Our Team

We are a diverse group of engineers, product and community advocates, moderators, and editors that are passionate about writing and online know-how.

Lisa Winter, Senior Manager, Evergreen

Lisa earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Southern New Hampshire University in 2018 after spending over 16 years in the healthcare industry. She is an editor, fact-checker, and SEO expert. She started as an editor and curator at HubPages in 2018. In her time with The Arena Group, she has had the privilege of not only working with HubPages, but also with Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated Swim, TheStreet, and Parade. When not running her three kids around to various activities, she can be found writing in cafes in San Francisco, going to as many concerts as possible, and reading anything by Neil Gaiman.

Angel Jennings, Manager, Senior Editors

Angel received a bachelor’s degree in international relations from UC Berkeley, where she published articles for The Berkeley Political Review and The Daily Californian, UC Berkeley’s student-run independent newspaper. She also spent a semester abroad in France, studying film, political science, and linguistics and traveling extensively through Europe. In addition to her role at HubPages/The Arena Group, Angel works as a paralegal to a family law attorney in Davis and is a certified notary public. Her hobbies include playing cello with a local symphony, reading and writing, baking, and shooting pool.

Brian Esparza, Team Lead and Editor

Brian is a Bay Area native who graduated from UC Berkeley with a double major in English and Film & Media Studies. Prior to joining HubPages/The Arena Group, he worked in a variety of roles in places ranging from financial companies to election departments, where he had a role in launching the first early voting sites in his county. He had previously worked as an editor and researcher for a concierge firm that produced international travel guides. Brian has over six years of professional experience in fact-checking and search engine optimization in his role as an editor. Brian fills his spare time by watching films, running, and going to concerts.

Devra Nelson, Senior Editor

Devra joined HubPages/The Arena Group in 2016. With a degree in human biology from Stanford University, she spent the first part of her career in book publishing (at Princeton University Press and John Wiley & Sons) before moving to the online publishing world. Her interests include reading, hiking in the beautiful Bay Area, traveling to new places, and discovering delicious bakeries with her family.

Wendy Mertl, Senior Editor

Wendy has an MFA in Fiction Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and undergraduate degrees in writing and visual art. She started her career as a copy editor for a daily print newspaper, then shifted to editing online articles with a focus on SEO and web-friendly formatting. Prior to joining HubPages/The Arena Group in 2019, she spent 11 years editing and fact-checking articles about higher education and careers. In addition to editing, she uses her writing and art skills to enhance content and create images and infographics for articles. Outside of the office, her interests include board games, word puzzles, tuxedo cats, the Portland Thorns, and reading as many library books as possible.

Domenic Strazzabosco, Senior Editor

Domenic graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor's in Cinema Studies and a minor in Journalism. Since joining HubPages in early 2022, he has refined his editing skills and learned the niche but interesting differences between British and American English. Some of his interests include record shopping, running, traveling (and planning future trips), as well as logging every film and book consumed. He takes particular pride in being able to name every country worldwide and is currently working on memorizing their population numbers.

LD Uehara, Editor

Lance is a husband, father of two daughters, and herder of several cats and dogs. He is a native Southern Californian living in El Monte, but his family background is Hawaii via Okinawa. He is a former resident of Chico, Seattle, Baton Rouge, Tuscaloosa, and Austin. Lance is the creator and host of the podcast, Don't Call It Nothing, based on his self-published book, "Don't Call It Nothing: The Lost History of '90s Roots, Rap & Rock 'n' Roll." He’s currently obsessed with the history of AAPI film and TV, K-Pop, and the intersectionality of Asians, Asian Americans, and pop culture.

Damon Pipitone, Editor

Damon worked in the legal, medical, and graphic design fields before becoming an editor of academic papers for graduate and doctoral students. He transitioned into writing and editing for digital media, working on a diverse array of interesting projects: media director and magazine editor for a TV personality, copy editor for several books (including an academic study about cinematic landscape allegory and a guide to creating business presentations using Hollywood storytelling techniques), and most recently he was an editorial assistant for a nationally syndicated author who writes a science-based humor advice column. Joining HubPages/The Arena Group has allowed him to stretch out and enhance his research, SEO and design skills, as well as collaborate with passionate, expert authors on informative articles. Damon lives in Los Angeles and also enjoys his side projects as a musician and podcaster.

Larry Slawson, Editor

Larry earned his Master’s degree in History from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2018. Before joining The Arena Group in 2023, he worked as a college instructor, math tutor, freelance editor, and writer. Some of his interests include reading, hiking, sudoku puzzles, writing, and watching new movies. Larry currently resides in Spartanburg, South Carolina with his wife and son.

Jennifer Bove, Editor

After several years as a wildlife researcher, Jennifer switched gears to raise incredible kids and launch a 20-year literary career in print and digital media. She joined HubPages/The Arena Group in 2023 and enjoys the daily variety of editing articles by writers with interests as diverse as her own. Off the clock, Jen hikes with her family, practices yoga, paints bas-relief wood panels, repairs her old house, and dabbles in ethnobiological history.

Erin McAllester, Editor

Erin McAllester lives in the wilds of central Oregon with her partner and Lana Del Dog, where she gardens and hosts raucous dinner parties. Don't let her science background scare you—she's been around the writing world for a while, and her diverse experience informs her casual tone and precise syntax. Business plans, email marketing copy, e-books, blog posts, literary editing, and copy editing are a few of her specialties. Her writing explores cultural critique.

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