Mallory Carra is an award-winning journalist, editor, and professor based in Los Angeles with over 18 years of professional experience working with digital, audio, and print. Since 2020, she has been an Associate Content Writer at Spotify’s Parcast Studios, writing and editing scripts for the platform’s top-rated original podcasts, such as Disappearances with Sarah Turney, Serial Killers, and Conspiracy Theories. Additionally, she is Parcast Union’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee Chair and the Spotify API Belonging Group’s LA Office Lead.

Outside of Spotify, Mallory is an adjunct professor at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism’s Annenberg Media Center, a multi-disciplinary student newsroom producing daily text, audio, and TV stories. She teaches a course where students write, report, and produce Annenberg Radio News’ daily radio show/podcast, From Where We Are, available on Spotify.

As a journalist and editor, Mallory has over 18 years of experience covering breaking news, entertainment, celebrities, food, lifestyle, e-commerce, real estate, sports, health, and academia. She has contributed work to the BBC World Service, E! News, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, the New York Daily News, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among many, many others.

She worked as an entertainment editor at Bustle for over 5 years and began her journalism career in newspapers as a staff writer for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee and the News & Observer in North Carolina.

A native of New York City, Mallory has an M.F.A. in screenwriting from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and a B.A. in journalism from New York University. Additionally, she earned certificates in business entrepreneurship and marketing at Santa Monica College. In her spare time, Mallory enjoys painting, going on random Wikipedia deep dives, and taking sunset photos. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America East and the Asian American Journalists Association.