Puja Patel is a career music media professional, journalist, festival curator, and consultant. She most recently served as the Editor-in-Chief of Pitchfork and co-host of The Pitchfork Review podcast and was previously the Editor-in-Chief of SPIN, the culture editor of Deadspin, and a masthead contributor for MTV and the Village Voice. Her writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, VICE, and FADER among others. Patel serves on the advisory board of NYU’s Clive Davis Institute and is a founding board member of Building Beats, a non-profit organization that provides music education and developmental skills to underserved youth across New York City and Los Angeles.