Evie Nagy

Content leader, writer, editor, snacker

United States

Hi there, I'm Evie. For more than 15 years, I've done almost everything there is to do in content, editorial, copy, thought leadership, social, brand voice, and communications.

I started as a speech and proposal writer for several academic leaders at Harvard, then took a hard turn into music and tech journalism as a staff editor and writer at Billboard, Rolling Stone, and Fast Company. I'm the author of the 33 1/3 book on Devo’s Freedom of Choice from Bloomsbury (with a foreword by Fred Armisen), and my work was published in Best Music Writing 2010.

With some mad science combining all of the above, I've spent the past decade-ish helping high-growth tech companies craft big-picture narratives and high-impact messaging that connects business, technology, and culture while driving brand awareness and product adoption.

I've led content, digital, and communications teams and initiatives at Slack, Crossbeam, Rippling, Wonderschool, and many clients as an agency partner (Mission North) and contractor. As an early member of the Content & Editorial team at Slack, I helped establish the brand as a leading B2B voice in human collaboration and the future of work.

I have an M.A. in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from New York University, an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University, an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University, and have certifications in marketing strategy, growth marketing, Ecosystem-Led Growth, and teaching English as a Foreign Language (long story).

I'm a rookie competitive powerlifter, currently the reigning champion of my household in breaking down Amazon boxes with my bare hands. I live in Oakland, CA with my husband, two daughters, two cats, and a lot of trash. As of March 2025, we'll all be relocating to the Twin Cities, Minnesota.

The pieces below are a small fraction of my work — many others, along with a full client list and references, are available upon request. You can also take a look at my LinkedIn profile and resume here:

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Portfolio

Content Marketing + Thought Leadership + Corporate Narrative

Crossbeam
ELG Insider | Ecosystem-Led Growth Insights for B2B Leaders

For all of 2024 I was the Managing Editor of ELG Insider, published by B2B SaaS startup Crossbeam. The content played a huge role in popularizing the Ecosystem-Led Growth GTM motion, which uses the power of partner ecosystems to drive revenue, as well as establishing Crossbeam as the Ecosystem Revenue Platform category leader. My weekly newsletter had a 45% average open rate, and ELG Insider readers were 3 times as likely to convert to Stage 2 Opportunities in Crossbeam's sales pipeline.

Inc
09/14/2023
The Top 7 Skills Powering the Future of Remote Work

Consulted for Eightfold AI's Chief Economist to write a contributed piece on the fact that as many companies push mandates to return to the office, those fostering a skills-based approach to remote work can build a stronger workforce and stay ahead of labor market changes.

Rippling
The New Workweek

Report on a survey of 2,000 remote and hybrid workers across the U.S. about their experiences and their expectations of the workweek after two years of working from home

Delta Sky Magazine
A working human's guide to going on vacation

Slack sponsored content for Delta's in-flight magazine. True story: A Slack engineer said his grandmother read it on a flight and finally understood what he did for a living.

Slack
"Channels" Magazine

Commissioned, edited, and wrote pieces for a print publication created for Slack's 2018 Frontiers user conference, highlighting and repurposing popular/key content (link from the personal website of the chief in-house designer on the project)

Twitter
10/06/2017
Shameless plug for unsolicited praise

A Twitter thread, written by the then-head of audience at Wikimedia, explaining why Slack's blog was so effective. It perfectly articulated and validated my vision for our content, and was completely unprompted..

Journalism

Authory
Evie Nagy's (mostly) complete journalism portfolio

At this link is a browsable/searchable portfolio of a decade's worth of my published clips from Fast Company, Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, Pitchfork, City Pages, Spin, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. A few highlights are below.

Pitchfork
09/28/2022
The Best Music of the 1990s

I wrote 12 entries in this celebration of the songs and albums that shaped the '90s. To find mine, Ctrl/Cmd-F "Nagy" (not Evie, as it's the middle of the word "review"!).

Fast Company (long read)
03/26/2014
Beyond Incredible: Building The Next Pixar

I interviewed 16 of Pixar's most illustrious alums, steeped for decades in Pixar's potent creative culture, who revealed for this in-depth piece how they apply the company's philosophies of success to their own ventures.

Billboard
08/19/2009
Biscuits and Jam with a Side of Mud

Feature on the Disco Biscuits' successful self-funded annual festival. Selected for Best Music Writing 2010 collection from Da Capo.

Fast Company
10/01/2015
Reinventing Medical School

The new med school at the University of Texas takes a totally new approach to training doctors-and could turn health care upside down.

City Pages (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
06/14/2019
Pop has a problem with dead dads

A salty Father's Day essay on the representation of late fathers in pop culture, adapted from my presentation at the 2018 Pop Conference, an annual conference for scholarship in popular music

Rolling Stone
06/15/2011
'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' Reboot Escapes the Train-Wreck

The first iteration of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which started previews last November, became a national punchline thanks to its constant cast injuries, budget problems and an incoherent plot. But everyone wanted to witness the train wreck, or at least read lots of accounts by people who did.

My Book(s)

Bloomsbury Publishing
05/21/2015
Devo's Freedom of Choice

Learn all about my 2015 book, part of Bloomsbury's acclaimed 33 1/3 series, with a foreword by Fred Armisen.

Amazon
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music [Willis Aronowitz, Nona, Carr, Daphne, Nagy, Evie, Frere-Jones, Sasha] at Amazon. I co-wrote the afterword to this collection of music writing from the New Yorker's first pop critic, who was also my professor in the graduate program she founded at NYU.