Claire McIntosh is an award-winning writer and editor who has worked for publications such as Essence magazine, where she was the Deputy Editor. She is known for her intimate writing style on topics such as wealth building, relationships, and travel. Claire is also a sought-after speaker who has appeared on television and radio. In her personal life, she enjoys adventure travel and spending time with her family in New Jersey.

1. Claire R. McIntosh
 Claire McIntosh is an award-winning writer and editor in the print and digital space who
recently added digital video production to her creative pursuits. Formerly, she was the
Deputy Editor of Essence, the premier magazine for African American women. At
Essence, she planned editorial strategy with an eye toward reaching aggregate
readership, focusing on core content such as careers, health, money/investing and
personal growth. She managed quality control and packaging of personal service articles
in the magazine and contributed online. Claire played a key role in developing cover
lines, a driver of newsstand sales. During her tenure, the magazine garnered more than
20 industry awards for editorial excellence, feature writing and reporting.
 Known for her intimate and reader-friendly style, Claire has written features for
Essence and essence.com on wealth building, family secrets, career planning,
parapsychology, relationships, parenting and travel. Her work has also appeared in Black
Enterprise, Crain's New York Business, Working Mother and Working Woman. She wrote
monthly columns for McCall's and Heart & Soul magazines, where she also held senior-
level positions. Claire contributed several chapters to Health & Healing for African
Americans (Rodale Press).
A sought-after speaker and engaging media presence, Claire has appeared on several
local morning shows including Good Day New York and Weekend Today in New York; on
various programs on the Food Network, Black Entertainment Television, CNBC, BBC
America and other cable networks, and on numerous radio programs.
 Claire is a former board member of The Big Sisters (now Partnership With Children).
She frequently serves as a student mentor and is an enthusiastic supporter of several
organizations focused on health care in the Third World; conservation of natural
resources; disaster relief; youth recreation; animal rescue; aid to victims of AIDS; global
and local hunger relief.
 Claire enjoys running, cycling, swimming, tennis, cooking and entertaining, fiction,
digital photography, film and music. She has a special passion for adventure travel and
ecotourism, and has enjoyed horseback riding in the Argentine Patagonia; bullfighting
in Andalusia; Cave tubing in the jungles of Belize; white-water rafting in Maine; skiing
and snowmobiling in the Rocky Mountains; swimming with dolphins in the Bahamas,
reef snorkeling in Mexico; sailing in Brazil; exploring pre-Columbian ruins in Honduras;
hiking in the U.S. Virgin Islands and touring New York City waterways by kayak.
 A graduate of Wellesley College, Claire has also studied publishing at Radcliffe
College, broadcasting at The New School University, and digital video production at The
Travel Channel Academy. She lives in central New Jersey with her husband and twin
sons.