Meet the HOW Staff

Megan Lane Patrick, Content Director
Megan Lane Patrick joined the HOW magazine team in 1999. As Content Director, she’s responsible for the editorial strategy for HOW magazine and books, as well as the HOW website and events. She’s best known for her ability to find cool things online, which she happily shares as on the HOW blog. Away from the office, she enjoys looking for Mid-Century Modern furniture bargains and collecting tiny chairs, natural history specimens and a certain vintage paint-by-numbers kitten.

Bridgid McCarren, Senior Art Director
In addition to designing HOW magazine, directing photography and illustration and developing the brand across multiple platforms, such as HOW’s websites, competitions and conferences, Bridgid has discovered a love for judging design competitions. She enjoys the opportunity to view global work and spot innovative design among a mass of entries. Bridgid is always on the move, whether traveling, volunteering, playing the occasional prank or exercising her title as the staff running-addict. It’s no wonder that the way type can inspire motion and emotion is a driving force behind her passion for stellar design.

Sarah Morton Whitman, Executive Editor
Sarah has been a part of the HOW team since 1998. As Executive Editor, she keeps the production process moving, balances the books and plans lots of things, from competitions and conferences to magazine articles and meetings. A family gal and animal lover, she spends lots of time with her husband, two young daughters and rescue dog.

Jessie Kuhn, Senior & Online Editor
Over the course of four years with HOW, Jessie has learned that designers are some of the most interesting, fun-loving and innovative people around. She sees stunning work all day long and is surrounded by creative energy from the readers of HOW that encourages her to pursue her own passions. She’s done this by broadening her once print-driven career into digital journalism as well as keeping her keen skills for sniffing out a story sharp (after all, she is a former reporter). Jessie looks forward to nurturing and growing Designing Change, which highlights designers influencing social change.