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Mandy Velez

Associate Director of Audience Development and Analytics

Mandy Velez Tatti is associate director of audience development and analytics for Teen Vogue and Them, overseeing social media, data & newsletters for the brands. She has work published by Cosmopolitan, Refinery29, The Daily Beast, and more and is an alumni of the Yale Writers' Workshop. She hit her 10 years in NYC and promptly moved to NJ where she lives with her husband and dog Cannoli. When she's not on Instagram or reading emails, she can be found writing personal essays, eating cake or talking about astrology.
Identity

Inside the Lives of Estranged Gen Z — and the Communities They’ve Found to Cope

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TV

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Politics

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TV

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Theater

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Celebrity Style

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Politics

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Theater

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Politics

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Health

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Politics

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