About/ Bio
My name is Abby Roskind and I’m a digital professional living and working in Washington, D.C. I graduated Cum Laude from the University of Southern California with degrees in International Relations and East Asian Languages and Cultures. I studied abroad in Beijing, taught English after graduation just outside of Hong Kong, and I can speak conversational Mandarin Chinese. I hope to live and work in Hong Kong one day.
As a digital native, I’m excited about the emerging technologies and platforms helping us build a more inclusive, fair, and informed world through shared information, a respect for digital privacy and rights, and increasing global interconnection. My little corner of that space is at the intersection of editorial work and technical skills—pursuing a career that values the intrinsic worth of ideas both through the written word and through computer language.
It’s here that I hope to display a variety of working ranging from creative, editorial, computer science, and coding.
"We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges." —Tim Berners-Lee
Digital storytelling is powerful
What do you want to say and how will you say it? Let me help develop your story from ideation to execution and delivery, and all the steps in between.
Words matter—how will you make sure yours are heard?
How I Got Here…
At Dill, in Reykjavik, Iceland 2020
My name is Abby Roskind and I’m a digital professional living and working in Washington, D.C. From the time I was young, I thought of myself as a “non-traditional creative,” which I know sounds confusingly redundant (I thought you said you were good at words?!). But creativity really comes in all forms, and a large part of being a creative is not letting anyone else define that for you. Wordsmithing is every bit as creative as painting, playing an instrument, or acting.
This realization opened new possibilities for my career and encouraged me to pursue a less traditional route, weaving and patching together skills and interests that excited me. I naturally gravitated toward the high-gloss, modern appeal of digital publications and journalism. While working in editorial and digital spaces, I developed a fascination with the sophisticated technologies and tools used to create these online platforms and deliver their messages.
I hope to blend my passion for writing and the digital sphere with my technological prowess to fully own the entire content production process, from ideation to web development, UX/ UI, delivery, and beyond. Right now, I’m focused on growing my technical skills in coding, web development, and data analytics in order to help write and develop messages in a format-specific, data-driven way.
As a digital native, these emerging technologies and platforms inspire me because I know they are the key to building a more inclusive, free, and fair world. As we’ve seen across the globe, technological developments and digital communication are playing a big role in redefining political systems and cultures. Through internationally-established data privacy and digital rights norms, as well as a commitment to transparency, good governance, and freedom of expression, we can use digital tools to help shape the future we want.
Now more than ever, the kind of creativity we need is out-of-the-box, multidisciplinary thinking that doesn’t intrinsically value one thing over the next. Rather, it will see the creative value in both the written word and the coded language. The next generation of problem solvers will see how all these things can work together.
““We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.” —Tim Berners-Lee ”
Abby graduated Cum Laude from the University of Southern California with degrees in International Relations and East Asian Languages and Cultures. She received several awards such as the Renaissance Scholar and Global Scholar Honors Awards for her academic and extracurricular work. She studied abroad in Beijing, taught English after graduation just outside of Hong Kong, and can speak conversational Mandarin Chinese.
After eight years working mostly in the online editorial space in Los Angeles, Abby felt it was time for a new challenge. She wanted to focus her efforts on cultural and international affairs, and moved to D.C. to start working in digital strategy on a political campaign. Currently, she is looking for new opportunities to combine her editorial and digital experience with her technological skills.