Stray Monkey Bios

Ray Abel

Founder

Ray is the founder of Stray Monkey, and as a shameless plug he wants to remind you to check out the Research the News podcast.

Eric Anderson

Creative Director

Eric and his mohawk are the Creative Directors for Stray Monkey. He also writes a column once every decade.

Amanda Smith

Editor

Amanda loves exploring, and runs all of the day to day operations in her free time.

Justin Hartwig

Justin is our marketing director, a Super Bowl champion, and the father to a beautiful daughter.

Pat Dininny

Pat is our resident comic book guy, news archiver, and is occasionally offensive. We apologize in advance.

Jenny MarieClaire

Jenny is our resident beard enthusiast, and author of the popular Beard of the Month column.

Matt Truck

Matt Truck is our resident expert on the NBA, R&B, and is one half of a dynamic-duo podcasting crew.

Marv Nelson

Marv is a husband and father who writes our Daddy Chronicles articles about the sometimes crazy life of a father.

Emily Skopic

Emily is one of our experts on women because she's great at advice.

Joes Jeff

Joes Jeff is the Director of Technology for Reko Solutions, and he aims to bring some level of credibility to Stray Monkey when it comes to Technology.

Ann Caldwell

Ann is our resident health expert. We affectionately refer to her as a "food elitist" around the offices.

Elliot Freeman

Elliot is our resident expert on beards, and is entering his first beard competition soon.

Cami Needle

Cami is our do-good correspondent and is really into social work.

Laura Brautigam Anderson

Laura is an author, wife, actress, and mother. She's also married to our Creative Director Eric.

Warren

Warren is our resident financial guru, but his identity is a secret.

Charlie Hildbold

Charlie is a sports expert, and the Sr. Vice President and Co-Owner of the Texas Revolution.

Erin Ramsey

Erin is a runner, and a big fan of writing about it.

Kristin Kipke

Kristin is a law school graduate, former college swimmer, and in a past job, worked on the launch of KFC's Double Down. You're welcome, America.

Frank Babies

Frank's into cagefighting and postmodern literature. Music is good. He's here to help you help him. Build the Machine.

Dan The Snyder

Dan likes to listen to music (mainly 80's rock) and watch sports. Oh, and write stuff.

Alexandra Pursglove

Alex was in the movie industry in LA, and now dedicates her time to non-profit work.

Jimmy Blundo

Jimmy is a former child actor whose home movies you've never seen.

Rachel Hamm

Rachel once gave a particularly confident guy a quadratic equation to solve, the solutions of which were the digits in her phone number.

Mike Ginsburg

I grew up, and continue to live in the quiet suburbs of Pittsburgh. During the day, I'm an IT professional and at night I morph into an awesome husband and father.

Marci Schiffhouer

Marci is a Licensed Behavior Specialist Consultant, along with a wife, mother of 2, problem solver extraordinaire, and (of course) part-time superhero.