- Family: First-time mom to a baby (still navigating the blur of those early months) with my husband Jonathan. We're very much in the trenches of figuring out parenthood in real time.
- Where I live: Northwest D.C., which has been a surprisingly great place to be a new parent — walkable enough for stroller laps, small enough that I run into the same neighbors at the coffee shop.
- Areas of interest: Food and dining (I write about restaurants and cooking for The Kitchn, Eater, Resy, and InsideHook, among others), travel (particularly hotels — I review them for Hotels Above Par), and the broader lifestyle beat around wellness, pregnancy, and new-parent life.
Turns out that parenting is either 11/10 or 1/10, there is basically no in between. So optimize for the things that get you to an 11, and be ruthless about them.
Lulu Chang is a writer and editor with more than a decade of experience covering lifestyle, travel, food and dining, wellness, and parenting. Her work has appeared in The Bump, Forbes, Business Insider, NBC Select, Bon Appétit, USA Today, Eater, Resy, The Kitchn, InsideHook, Hotels Above Par, Northern Virginia Magazine, and others, spanning everything from hotel reviews and restaurant features to product roundups and service journalism for new and expecting parents.
Her areas of expertise include pregnancy and early parenthood (written from the trenches as a first-time mom), baby and maternity gear reviews, food and restaurant criticism, hotel and travel writing, and wellness and lifestyle reporting. She is especially drawn to pieces that cut through marketing language to tell readers what's actually worth their money and attention.
Lulu holds a dual perspective that informs her writing: the editorial instincts of a longtime journalist and the analytical rigor of an investor who spends her days pressure-testing product claims, unit economics, and founder pitches. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and son.
Education:
Lulu graduated from Dartmouth College, where she double-majored in music and government. She later earned her MBA from the Yale School of Management.