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Meet Team Lily

The humans behind The Lily

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May 15, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. EDT

A product of The Washington Post, The Lily launched in 2017. We are named after the first U.S. newspaper written and edited by women, founded in 1849.

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Team Lily

Neema Roshania Patel is editor of The Lily. She joined The Washington Post in 2016 as a digital editor for The Post’s highly visual Select app, and went on to help launch The Lily in 2017. Before that, she worked at NPR member station WHYY as a community editor. Neema graduated from Rutgers University with a dual-degree in journalism and economics.

Lena Felton is deputy editor of The Lily. She joined the team as a multiplatform editor in 2018, and before that, she was a politics fellow at The Atlantic. She majored in English at Harvard, but spent more time running the Harvard Crimson’s weekly magazine than reading books. She proudly hails from Marin County, Calif.

Rachel Orr is design editor of The Lily. She joined The Post in 2013 as a designer and has helped launch The Washington Post Select app, The Lily and most recently, By The Way. Before that, she was a designer at the Arizona Republic. Rachel graduated from Ohio University, in a town that she and her friends lovingly refer to as Neverland. She lives in D.C. in a one-bedroom apartment filled with a floor-to-ceiling gallery wall and her black cat, Pringle.

Caroline Kitchener is a staff reporter for The Lily, covering all things women and gender. She is the author of “Post Grad: Five Women and Their First Year Out of College,” a nonfiction book about figuring out life after graduation. Before joining The Washington Post, she worked at the Atlantic as an associate editor, and taught English at a university in Nanchang, China. She lives with two cats, both named after Chinese dumplings.

Anne Branigin is a staff reporter for The Lily, where she covers everything from the economy to your favorite poets. Before joining the Washington Post in 2020, she a was a staff writer at The Root. A beach girl at heart, Anne holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and an MS in journalism from the University of Southern California.

María Alconada Brooks is an art director for The Lily. Before joining The Washington Post, she worked with the marketing team at Florida’s Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, an 80-year-old nonprofit focused on preserving biodiversity. Previously, she worked for clients such as Cartoon Network, Discovery, Home & Health and Kellogg’s. She received her graphic design degree at the Fine Arts University in La Plata, Argentina, and became a specialized illustrator at the Polytechnic University in Valencia, Spain.

Hannah Good is a multiplatform editor for The Lily. Before joining The Post in 2021, she was the social media producer at Washingtonian Magazine. She’s also a comic artist and illustrator. A proud Kentuckian, she graduated from Western Kentucky University, where she was editor-in-chief of the Talisman magazine. She and her bunny Ruthie now call D.C. home.

Janay Kingsberry is a multiplatform editor for The Lily, where she helps grow loyalty and engagement on social media, as well as write and produce our newsletter, Lily Lines. She’s also a published photographer and loves to shoot with funky 35mm films. Previously, Janay was an engagement editor at Politico and is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University.