Ayn Gailey
PACIFIC NORTHWEST | MASTERS IN EDUCATION & SOCIAL POLICY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Uses words, images, and a multicultural POV to power stories, brands, and movements online and offline.
Writing has been adapted to film and published or produced by Elle (UK), Kinfolk, Showtime & PBS.
Significant training in Myers-Briggs Communication Theory and Crisis-intervention-level listening training
Collaborative, solution-driven team player, leader and mentor
A Squarespace Circle Forum Web Builder
Ayn loves working with creators & disruptors. People who like to work hard. Individuals fueled by passion. The team that maintains a sense of humor even under pressure. Believers. And, most of all, people who enjoy the journey as much as the destination.
Her first job was as Executive Director of a community revitalization project co-sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles and Kaiser Permanente, which cemented her love of private-public collaborations. As a former Chief Content & Communications Officer (and always a writer/editor), she now uses her powers to help non-profits, artists, entrepreneurs, and public organizations build brands, web platforms, and press powered primarily by editorial-style content, including imagery and storytelling. Her strategic work, web builds, and ghostwriting organically increase sales, S.E.O., brand interest, and loyalty in a more cost-effective manner than traditional marketing. Her work has resulted in clients being featured in Kinfolk, WWD, The NY Times (including the New York Times Bestseller list for books), Goop/Birchbox, Huffington Post, US Weekly, Angeleno, LA Times, Harpers Bazaar, Martha Stewart, Forbes, Entertainment Tonight, Documentary Magazine, USA Today, Publishers Weekly & other magazines.
Ayn brings a multicultural perspective to all the work she tackles. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan to a Chinese mother and a Mexican-American father with Karankawa descent; she spent high school in Izmir, Turkey; charitable time with Rotary International in India; and significant time in Europe and varying parts of the United States.
In addition to a Master's degree in Education & Social Policy from Harvard University, Ayn earned her BA in Psychology and an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA.
She serves her community as an elected official of her local school board and enjoys lobbying legislators on behalf of education and the arts; she is the Vice Chair of the Arts Economy state advocacy non-profit known as WhipSmart; and a proud member of Woman in the Woods' executive board, whose vision includes tackling racism through performance art.
Ayn lives on the remote island of Orcas with her husband, author Samuel W. Gailey, and her teen daughter, the creator of Wondermintkids.com and Girlfolk.com.