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Kristen Kazarian has been a writer and editor for more than three decades. She has worked at several consumer magazines and B2B publications in the fields of food and beverage, packaging, processing, women's interest, local news, health and nutrition, fashion and beauty, automotive, and IT. She was editor and chief of Packaging Strategies magazine, managing editor at Food Engineering magazine, and editorial director at Produce Processing magazine. Kristen also worked in television as the digital producer helping write scripts for advertisements. Prior in the 1990s, Kristen worked at CarCraft, Hot Rod, Shape, 'Teen, Sassy, JUMP, and other consumer magazines owned by Petersen Publishing and Weider Publishing. She also worked at a Microsoft partner magazine, Redmond (formerly Microsoft Professional magazine) as the associate editor. In the late '80s to early '90s, Kristen worked as the editorial assistant for a regional weekly newspaper while earning her B.A. in journalism from Central Michigan University in 1991.