Lylah M. Alphonse

[6] She also wrote frequently for their Travel,[7] Food,[8] National & Foreign News, and Living/Arts[9] sections.

She has also been Consulting Editor for the Fezana Journal,[10] Managing Editor at Work It, Mom!,[11] and Senior Editor and Writer at Yahoo.com,[12] where she covered news, parenting trends, health, women's issues,[13] and politics and interviewed First Lady Michelle Obama,[14] presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett,[15] and others.

She became the managing editor for special reports at U.S. News & World Report in June 2013, and was promoted to managing editor for news a year later.

[16][17] After a brief tenure as Senior Vice President of Laurel Strategies, a strategic communications firm based in Washington, D.C.,[18] she rejoined The Boston Globe as the editor of their Rhode Island bureau in October 2020.

Repeat.,[22] is the author of Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr[23] (ISBN 0-9709937-0-6), and has contributed articles to Our Times (5th edition, Bedford Books, 1998) and Interactions: A Thematic Reader (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999).