Faculty Profile

Degrees

PHD, Rutgers University; MA, New York Univ (NYU); BA, SUNY Coll Buffalo

Bio

Sandra Mardenfeld is a freelance writer, editor, content marketing consultant and educator based in Long Island, New York. She has worked as the managing editor for several national magazines, as the Broadway editor of Playbill and as an editor/writer on many websites. She currently teaches in Hofstra University’s Continuing Education program and in the Department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations and at Five Towns College. She’s also worked as an assistant professor for LIU Post, St. Thomas Aquinas College and Mercy College.

Professor Mardenfeld has written for more than 50 newspapers, magazines, and websites. Her features, articles, essays, and reviews have run in such publications as Bride & Groom, Newsday, Allure, Distinction, The New York Times Book Review, Parents and Children, The Daily News, Jewelry Connoisseur, ModernBride.com, Elegant Bride, Working Woman, Time Out New York, Stagebill, The Christian Science Monitor, Entrepreneur.com, Retail Ad World, American Bookseller, Construction Equipment Guide and Good Dog. She also does marketing, social media management and content creation. She currently edits for Business News Daily and Business.com.

Sandra Mardenfeld obtained her PhD in Communication and Information and Library Science, specializing in media studies, at Rutgers University. She received her master's degree in magazine journalism at New York University and her bachelor's degree in journalism at The State University College of Buffalo.

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