President, Aaron Gell ASSME founder and president Aaron Gell created the organization on a fateful day in November 2009, not long after the demise of Radar magazine, for which he served as executive editor. He is currently (just between us) employed as the editor-in-chief of Hemispheres magazine, but remains shitcanned at heart. He is a contributing writer for Elle, and has written for Vanity Fair, GQ, Details, New York, The New York Times, The New York Observer, O, the Oprah Magazine, Maxim and plenty of other magazines that no longer exist but shone brightly in their day and live on in our hearts. Read his posts.Steve Huff, Editor Steve Huff has written for TruTV’s Crime Library and Radar magazine. He launched Village Voice Media’s True Crime Report and helmed the popular true crime blog for more than a year. Steve has been an on-air commentator for MSNBC, HLN, NBC and and blog manager for comedian and author Michael Ian Black. As a classically-trained tenor, he has sung professionally for the Knoxville and Atlanta Opera companies. He lives just outside Atlanta, Georgia. You can follow him on Twitter or just read one of histhree tumblelogs. Read his posts.Sheila McClear, Style Editor A former labor reporter and union activist, Sheila McClear has been a writer at Gawker.com. Her proudest moment there was having James Frey as an intern. She’s also written for the New York Observer, the New York Post and the New York Press. TURN ONS: labor law reform, beer. TURN OFFS: Ivy League grads, the entire concept of J-school. Read her posts.Christine Rochelle, Relationships Editor A blogger who was once living the high life at MTV and now lives at home with her parents in the Dirty Jerz, Christine spends her unemployed time writing for Lifestyler (lifestylermag.com), ranting about life on her blog (christinecackles.blogspot.com), and trying to make living at home seem cool through livingwithmyparents.com. If you’re ever down in Jersey you will find Christine preaching about her glory days as Bonnie Fuller’s intern. She also is seriously thinking about burning her journalism degree but her parents won’t let her play with fire. Read her posts.Jeffrey Stanley, Contributor Jeffrey Stanley is a playwright, screenwriter, director, and occasional journalist. His plays include the semiautobiographical wartime drama Tesla’s Letters, the southern fried dark comedy about medical ethics and NASCAR Medicine, Man, his autobiographical comedy show The Golden Horseshoe: A Lecture on Tragedy, and others. He is immediate past president of the board of directors of the New York Neo-Futurists experimental theatre ensemble, and his award-winning short film Lady in a Box, a satire inspired by the Terri Schiavo euthanasia case and starring Sarita Choudhury, has been licensed numerous times for international broadcast and distribution. Stanley has been a guest at Yaddo, a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, and a guest lecturer at the Imaginary Academy film and theatre workshop in Croatia sponsored by the Soros Foundation. He frequently teaches at his alma mater the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and at New York University School of Continuing & Professional Studies. He has appeared as a featured writer in The New York Times, Time Out New York and Hemispheres, and he was a senior advisor to Boston University’s Center for Millennial Studies’ book on apocalypse movements The End That Does. Stanley holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch where he studied under playwright David Ives, and a BFA from Tisch in Film & Television with a minor in cultural anthropology. http://www.brain-on-fire.com . Read his posts.Alex Grabie, Contributor Grabie has no Twitter account or blog of his own, and therefore is most likely a fictional character cobbled together from various mythological sources. Sightings of him in the greater New York area have been largely discredited as hoaxes. The earliest known mentioning of his name is in the Viking Prose Edda, while the latest sighting of him was in a field in France circa 1944. He also likes Cuban sandwiches. Read his posts.Rohin Guha, Contributor Rohin Guha has made many poor life choices, but being a writer during the New Depression isn’t one of them. He currently writes about Lindsay Lohan and other vulgarities of contemporary culture for BlackBook and also manages the online literary and arts journal At-Large Magazine. In his spare time, he enjoys the company of brooding poets, abrasive drag queens, and Charles Shaw. Read his posts.John Gorenfeld, Contributor John Gorenfeld is the author of The King of America, the book that tells the story of how kitschy, horrifying 1970s cult leader Reverend Moon (the guy who did all the mass weddings) became a newspaper publisher and Republican bigshot. Gorenfeld has written for Radar magazine, National Public Radio, Salon.com, the American Prospect, the London Guardian, Reason and L’ecran Fantastique, and has appeared as a talking head on ABC News and Animal Planet.Read his posts.Matt Harvey, ContributorMatt Harvey is a New York City-based writer who writes primarily for New York Press. He has also contributed to the New York Observer, the New York Post, Time Out New York, Chelsea Now, the Villager, Exiled.com and Gawker.com. Read his posts.Drew Grant, Contributor Drew Grant has to be referred to by her full name when she’s out of the room, but otherwise all bets are off. She was formerly the editor of Jossip, and wrote for a bunch of places like 23/6, Street Carnage, Chief Magazine, and her college newspaper. She also writes a lot, and very fast. That’s why there are typos. Deal with it. Here is her Twitter and her blog. Read her posts.Bill Richards, Architecture Editor Bill Richards is an itinerant writer and editor-in-chief for Inform, an architecture and design magazine. He proudly wears his YesWeCanned t-shirt whenever it cycles up in the laundry pile. Read his posts.Shawna Seldon, Publicist Shawna Seldon has been handling the PR for media entities since before the first dot-com bust. As senior vice president at The Rosen Group, she leads accounts including Revision3, Terra.com and PCMag.com, as well as non-publishing clients such as International Fund for Animal Welfare, the American Wind Energy Association and Cibus, a San Diego-based biotech firm… Meaning she can talk to you about non-transgenic mutation and wind-turbine technology over that free drink at the open bar she organized for a media client. She also volunteers her spare time for disadvantaged communities including The Fresh Air Fund, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and, of course, ASSME/MediaElites. John Sheppard, Logo Designer John Sheppard, a native of Austin, Texas, is an art director in New York City. He has worked at New York, Radar, Page Six Magazine, and Technology Review, among others. His hobbies include cooking, compulsively redecorating, and making COBRA payments. www.johnsheppard.net
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About
President, Aaron Gell
ASSME founder and president Aaron Gell created the organization on a fateful day in November 2009, not long after the demise of Radar magazine, for which he served as executive editor. He is currently (just between us) employed as the editor-in-chief of Hemispheres magazine, but remains shitcanned at heart. He is a contributing writer for Elle, and has written for Vanity Fair, GQ, Details, New York, The New York Times, The New York Observer, O, the Oprah Magazine, Maxim and plenty of other magazines that no longer exist but shone brightly in their day and live on in our hearts. Read his posts. Steve Huff
, Editor Steve Huff has written for TruTV’s Crime Library and Radar magazine. He launched Village Voice Media’s True Crime Report and helmed the popular true crime blog for more than a year. Steve has been an on-air commentator for MSNBC, HLN, NBC and and blog manager for comedian and author Michael Ian Black. As a classically-trained tenor, he has sung professionally for the Knoxville and Atlanta Opera companies. He lives just outside Atlanta, Georgia. You can follow him on Twitter or just read one of his three tumblelogs. Read his posts. Sheila McClear
, Style Editor A former labor reporter and union activist, Sheila McClear has been a writer at Gawker.com. Her proudest moment there was having James Frey as an intern. She’s also written for the New York Observer, the New York Post and the New York Press. TURN ONS: labor law reform, beer. TURN OFFS: Ivy League grads, the entire concept of J-school. Read her posts. Christine Rochelle, Relationships Editor
A blogger who was once living the high life at MTV and now lives at home with her parents in the Dirty Jerz, Christine spends her unemployed time writing for Lifestyler (lifestylermag.com), ranting about life on her blog (christinecackles.blogspot.com), and trying to make living at home seem cool through livingwithmyparents.com. If you’re ever down in Jersey you will find Christine preaching about her glory days as Bonnie Fuller’s intern. She also is seriously thinking about burning her journalism degree but her parents won’t let her play with fire. Read her posts. Jeffrey Stanley
, Contributor Jeffrey Stanley is a playwright, screenwriter, director, and occasional journalist. His plays include the semiautobiographical wartime drama Tesla’s Letters, the southern fried dark comedy about medical ethics and NASCAR Medicine, Man, his autobiographical comedy show The Golden Horseshoe: A Lecture on Tragedy, and others. He is immediate past president of the board of directors of the New York Neo-Futurists experimental theatre ensemble, and his award-winning short film Lady in a Box, a satire inspired by the Terri Schiavo euthanasia case and starring Sarita Choudhury, has been licensed numerous times for international broadcast and distribution. Stanley has been a guest at Yaddo, a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, and a guest lecturer at the Imaginary Academy film and theatre workshop in Croatia sponsored by the Soros Foundation. He frequently teaches at his alma mater the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and at New York University School of Continuing & Professional Studies. He has appeared as a featured writer in The New York Times, Time Out New York and Hemispheres, and he was a senior advisor to Boston University’s Center for Millennial Studies’ book on apocalypse movements The End That Does. Stanley holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch where he studied under playwright David Ives, and a BFA from Tisch in Film & Television with a minor in cultural anthropology. http://www.brain-on-fire.com . Read his posts. Alex Grabie, Contributor 
Grabie has no Twitter account or blog of his own, and therefore is most likely a fictional character cobbled together from various mythological sources. Sightings of him in the greater New York area have been largely discredited as hoaxes. The earliest known mentioning of his name is in the Viking Prose Edda, while the latest sighting of him was in a field in France circa 1944. He also likes Cuban sandwiches. Read his posts. Rohin Guha, Contributor
Rohin Guha has made many poor life choices, but being a writer during the New Depression isn’t one of them. He currently writes about Lindsay Lohan and other vulgarities of contemporary culture for BlackBook and also manages the online literary and arts journal At-Large Magazine. In his spare time, he enjoys the company of brooding poets, abrasive drag queens, and Charles Shaw. Read his posts. 
John Gorenfeld, Contributor John Gorenfeld is the author of The King of America, the book that tells the story of how kitschy, horrifying 1970s cult leader Reverend Moon (the guy who did all the mass weddings) became a newspaper publisher and Republican bigshot. Gorenfeld has written for Radar magazine, National Public Radio, Salon.com, the American Prospect, the London Guardian, Reason and L’ecran Fantastique, and has appeared as a talking head on ABC News and Animal Planet. Read his posts. Matt Harvey, Contributor
Matt Harvey is a New York City-based writer who writes primarily for New York Press. He has also contributed to the New York Observer, the New York Post, Time Out New York, Chelsea Now, the Villager, Exiled.com and Gawker.com. Read his posts. Drew Grant
, Contributor Drew Grant has to be referred to by her full name when she’s out of the room, but otherwise all bets are off. She was formerly the editor of Jossip, and wrote for a bunch of places like 23/6, Street Carnage, Chief Magazine, and her college newspaper. She also writes a lot, and very fast. That’s why there are typos. Deal with it. Here is her Twitter and her blog. Read her posts. Bill Richards, Architecture Editor Bill Richards is an itinerant writer and editor-in-chief for Inform, an architecture and design magazine
. He proudly wears his YesWeCanned t-shirt whenever it cycles up in the laundry pile. Read his posts. 
Shawna Seldon, Publicist Shawna Seldon has been handling the PR for media entities since before the first dot-com bust. As senior vice president at The Rosen Group, she leads accounts including Revision3, Terra.com and PCMag.com, as well as non-publishing clients such as International Fund for Animal Welfare, the American Wind Energy Association and Cibus, a San Diego-based biotech firm… Meaning she can talk to you about non-transgenic mutation and wind-turbine technology over that free drink at the open bar she organized for a media client. She also volunteers her spare time for disadvantaged communities including The Fresh Air Fund, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and, of course, ASSME/MediaElites. John Sheppard, Logo Designer John Sheppard, a native of Austin, Texas, is an art director in New York City. He has worked at New York, Radar, Page Six Magazine, and Technology Review, among others. His hobbies include cooking, compulsively redecorating, and making COBRA payments. www.johnsheppard.net