Our team

Alexandra Petrova

Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan is thrilled to join the fantastic Rochester Women Magazine team. She will seek to make her contributions as community editor inclusive and diverse with a broad and deep reach to women in Rochester.
For this work, Barbara will draw on her almost thirty-year history of active engagement in Rochester, ranging from roles leading nonprofit boards, to building coalitions across the community, to her professional work at Mayo Clinic. She is excited to share her community connections with the members of the editorial team. Barbara identifies as Black woman, wife, mother, woman of faith
and fast friend.

Erin Gibbons
Erin works full-time job is as a Resource Developer for 1517 Media in Minneapolis, MN, but has been a freelance editor and writer since 2010 and has worked for Rochester Women since 2013. She lives in south Minneapolis with her husband, toddler, and doggie, but she loves staying connected to her hometown through her work on this local magazine.

Jen Jacobson
Assistant Editor

Kate Brue
Graphic Designer
I am the layout designer for Rochester Women magazine. I grew up in Prior Lake, MN and moved to Rochester in 2002. I have been in layout design for over 20 years and it is what I really love to do.

Dr. Rosei Skipper
freelance writer

Samantha Erickson

Tessa Slisz
Graphic Designer

Tiffany Alexandria
Editor