Emily Codik named assistant editor for Wellness

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Announcement from Wellness Editor Tara Parker-Pope:

We’re delighted to announce that Emily Codik will develop into an assistant editor on our increasing Private Well being and Wellness desk.

In her new function, Emily will develop a brand new “Ask” column, working with a different group of nontraditional freelancers who will present professional recommendation to readers. Emily will even work with our visible and social media groups to create social-first content material, and step in as wanted to edit workers and freelance tales and assist produce a brand new rebranded wellness e-newsletter.

Along with her deft modifying abilities, Emily brings to her new function a ardour for health and cooking, a confirmed monitor report of making common content material for social media and a world perspective that may assist us join with readers world wide.

In almost seven years at The Publish, Emily has labored on the Options and Multiplatform desks, modifying tales from throughout the newsroom and in a variety of codecs. In Options, she edited tales on Roseanne Barr’s trip to Israel and the rise of Latin trap, assisted in awards present protection and oversaw multimedia tasks for the Weekend part. She has additionally edited in Spanish, copy-editing such tasks as “Marooned in Matamoros” and the fight for a gender-neutral Spanish.

In 2019, Emily relocated to Rio de Janeiro, the place her husband, Terrence McCoy, serves as The Publish’s bureau chief. Since shifting to Rio, Emily has made herself indispensable, working as a replica editor, filling in as an editor on the Common and Overseas desks and contributing recipes, wholesome consuming insights and Instagram Reels to Voraciously, together with the right way to prepare dinner with green bananas, a favourite well being fad in Brazil and a key ingredient in her recipe for vegan brownies.

Emily additionally began a preferred Portuguese-language TikTok, dubbed “Gringa in Brazil,” the place her wholesome cooking demos have amassed 145,000 followers and tens of millions of views, together with 2.5 million for her recipe for chocolate oats. She’s additionally gained a following on Instagram, sharing recipes in each Spanish and English, and has developed greater than 20 recipes for the upcoming plant-based cookbook from Washington Publish Meals Editor Joe Yonan.

Earlier than becoming a member of The Publish, Emily served as the humanities editor for Washingtonian journal, the place she wrote a long-form function in regards to the dramatic demise of a posh ice cream parlor in Georgetown, and the story was optioned by Channing Tatum’s and Danny McBride’s manufacturing firms. In Miami, she was a restaurant critic and editor for Miami New Occasions.

She has a B.A. in artwork historical past from Duke College and a grasp’s in journalism from Georgetown College. Her grasp’s capstone challenge, published in The Post, unearthed revelations about her household’s escape from the Holocaust and refuge in a small Dominican city.

A twin Dominican-U.S. citizen, Emily was raised in Santo Domingo and lived there till shifting to the USA for school. In her free time, she has loved samba-dancing lessons, vinyasa yoga and seashore CrossFit. She is a local Spanish speaker and is fluent in Portuguese. Along with serving to launch the brand new Wellness desk, Emily has one other main challenge within the works: She and Terry expect their first youngster in October.

Please congratulate Emily on her new function. She begins Monday.

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