Professional Experience
McLean is a DC-based luxury lifestyle writer specializing in travel, spas, beauty and fashion for leading magazines and Web sites nationwide.
She has covered everything from luxury condos in Switzerland for Robb Report to Lake Como's newest five-star resort (Luxist) to the best places to get waxed for The Washingtonian, plus daily travel news for Gadling and AOLTravel.
A native Washingtonian, McLean blogs daily about DC living at DeaconDoesDC.com, her personal site tracking all things fashion, food and fun in the District and beyond.
She graduated cum laude from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she majored in English literature and double minored in Journalism and History. She is currently pursuing a masters degree from Georgetown University in Journalism and trying to find the time to finish her first romance novel.
Expertise
Copy Editor
2 Years
Technical Writer
3 Years
Writer
6 Years
Specialty
Fashion
6 Years
Lifestyle
6 Years
Travel
6 Years
Industries
Magazine - Trade magazines/publications (B2B)
3 Years
Magazine - Local/Regional magazines
6 Years
Online/new media
6 Years