Mallory Carra

• From 2014 until 2020, Mallory worked as an assistant and office manager for a general contractor, where she learned all about the ins and outs of house foundations, Southern California Building & Safety permits and plan checks, and the home buying process.
• Mallory has been an avid gardener since 2014, growing everything from sunflowers and herbs to succulents and cacti.
• She is a long-time renter obsessed with looking for home organization hacks and renter-friendly DIY projects for her home.

Experience

Mallory Carra is an award-winning journalist, editor, producer, and professor based in Los Angeles with over 20 years of professional experience across digital, audio, and print mediums. She is a part-time professor, teaching video, audio, and digital journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. As a journalist and editor herself, Mallory has pretty much covered it all, including the great outdoors, food, lifestyle, home, real estate, and more for media outlets such as The Guardian US, the New York Daily News, Stacker.com, Trulia, Bustle, and The Daily Meal, among many others.

Education

Mallory received a bachelor's degree in journalism and history from New York University and a master's degree in screenwriting from the University of Southern California.