Portrait: Rayon Richards; top photo: Kat Wirsing.

Portrait: Rayon Richards; top photo: Kat Wirsing.

Hadley is a longtime design writer and editor currently serving as Director of Editorial and Community Engagement at the Design Leadership Network, a community of top interior designers.

Previously, she was Digital Director at House Beautiful, the nation’s oldest continually-published shelter magazine, where she oversaw all digital content as well as brand franchises including the Next Wave list of on-the-rise designers. Before that, she worked at Architectural Digest as a market editor, design writer, and, finally, the founding editor of AD PRO. She splits her time between New York and Washington, where she sits on the board of the Oasis Alliance, a nonprofit providing pro-bono design service to trauma survivors, and is a member of the White House Historic Association’s Next Gen Leaders cohort. She is a frequent speaker at design industry events and published her first book with Vendome in 2021.

See some of her published work here, here, and in the writing and video sections above. 

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