Janelle Nanos was raised on Long Island, New York, but thankfully does not have an accent. She attended Boston College and earned her masters degree in Journalism from New York University, where she helped launch the Livewire news service and was awarded a Knight Foundation Fellowship for her outstanding reporting.

For nearly three years she worked as a reporter at New York Magazine, covering a litany of subjects, among them: Wall Street floor brokers, nanny surveillance techniques, exploding manhole covers, 9/11 conspiracy theories, cancer survivors, senior citizen karaoke, dog-leash law wars, eldercare services, cold case detectives, presidential politics and celebrity gossip. She is regular contributor to the magazine’s “Intelligencer” news and “Strategist” service sections, as well as special issues on Travel, Best of New York, Best Doctors and the Wedding Guides.

She currently works as an Assistant Editor for Special Projects at National Geographic Traveler, where she writes and edits for the magazine and website, and runs the Intelligent Travel blog. She also continues to report as a D.C. stringer for New York Magazine.

Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, D.C. Magazine, Newsday, Slate, Marie Claire, The Village Voice, Forbes.com, Mother Jones, City Limits, Travel + Leisure Family, The NYU Alumni Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and Nerve.com.

Janelle lives in Washington D.C. and enjoys running, photography, and cooking, though not at the same time.

[Photo: Speaking with the Fantastic Soulernaires for a New York Times article on the Gospel in Harlem USA festival. By Piotr Redlinski]