Kara Jillian Brown

Kara Jillian Brown is a skilled beauty editor currently working at InStyle since September 2023. Prior to this role, Kara gained extensive experience at Well+Good from January 2020 to August 2023 as both a beauty writer and news writer, and previously interned there in 2019. Kara's background also includes serving as a brand representative at Hollister Co. for five years and participating in the Student Journalism Institute at The New York Times as a reporter in 2018. Throughout an impressive academic journey, Kara earned a Master of Arts in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and a Bachelor of Arts in English Rhetoric from Binghamton University. Additional experiences include editorial roles at Pipe Dream, where Kara contributed significantly to student journalism, and internships at NewBeauty and Harpur Perspective.