Meet Fi

Writer, Editor, Consultant.

Hi! I’m Fi (they/them), an award-winning independent journalist, editor, and consultant covering health, science, tech, labor, LGBTQ+ issues, and more. I have experience in digital media, book publishing, personal branding, and video production. My writing has been published in The Nation, The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Wired, Vox, The Guardian, Business Insider, the Columbia Journalism Review, and more. My latest book project, THE LONG COVID SURVIVAL GUIDE, was a 2022 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner in Health.

I am currently the Editorial Director at Bell & Ivy, a personal and team branding agency, and provide independent consulting services to clients in the technology, health, education, legal, media and nonprofit sectors. I currently direct newsletters and blogs at Within and New Health, and am an editor at REI, where I work on stories about running, sustainability, and the outdoors. I have served as a subject matter expert on patient experiences and peer communities for the CDC, WHO and POTUS Covid-19 Equity Task Force, and have produced a series of work meant to help journalists navigate reporting on novel and chronic illnesses.

I am also a founder and community-builder. In 2018, I started the NYC-based queer feminist wellness collective and events series, Body Politic, which is now a grassroots patient-led health justice organization. In 2020, I co-founded the Body Politic COVID-19 Support Group on Slack which served over 15K Covid-19 patients across the globe until 2023, and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Women’s Health, among many other outlets. Since then I’ve helped launch non-profit organizations, communities for media entrepreneurs, and symptom tracking apps. I co-created and currently volunteer with three health justice community projects: The Wayside, The Long COVID Survival Guide book exchange, and The Long COVID Source List.

I am based in Los Angeles, California, but was born and raised in New York.

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