The Tillary Hotel

Age:​ ​28 Pronouns:​ She/Her Neighborhood:​ ​Cobble Hill Most​ ​Likely​ ​To:​ ​Ask For Your Wifi Password Immediately Upon Entering Your Home Favorite​ ​Quote:​ ​“Everything is copy.” – Nora Ephron If you’ve seen young people’s voices amplified, there’s a good chance Taylor Trudon was working in the background. Formerly the editor of the Huffington Post’s Teen vertical…

Name: Sara McDonald Age: 26 Neighborhood: Kensington Most Likely To: Get sick to my stomach during something important, but in high school I was voted most likely to host my own talk show. Favorite Quote: “Don’t try.” (meaning, do it) As a young kid, Sara McDonald would canvass her neighborhood asking for donations to fund her…

Age: 28 Pronouns: They/Them Neighborhood: Williamsburg Most Likely To: Smile at a dog on the sidewalk rather than their owner Favorite Quote: “Heart leaking something so strong, they can smell it in the street.” – Marty McConnell Sam Escobar is the current deputy digital editor of Allure magazine. Previously holding roles as an editor at Bustle and…

Age: 29 Pronouns: He/him Neighborhood: Prospect Heights Most Likely To: Fall asleep at 10pm, at a party at my own house Favorite Quote: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” – Rabindranath Tagore It’s not exactly news to the…

Age: 28 Pronouns: She/Her Neighborhood: Bed-Stuy Most Likely to: Stay in bed all day watching Fixer Upper on HGTV  Favorite Quote: “In the final analysis, it was between you and God, it was never between you and them, anyway.” – Mother Teresa Since her first Psych class, Naiylah knew she’d go into therapy. Currently, she…

Age: 26 Pronouns: He/Him Neighborhood: Crown Heights Most Likely to: Fall asleep in my bathroom with a book and my laptop after a night of hard drinking and dancing because it feels cozy and clever. Favorite Quote: “Language is also a place of struggle.” – bell hooks Myles Johnson’s words make people pay attention. With…

AGE: 24 PRONOUNS: She/Her NEIGHBORHOOD: Bushwick MOST LIKELY TO: Stay in on a Friday night FAVORITE QUOTE: “You arrived like a day and passed like a cloud.” – The Pretenders Seeing the world through the lens of women is eye-opening. I not only mean this in the sense that we’re in a time where more women are behind-the-camera—Ava Duvernay,…

Age: 9 Pronouns: She/Her Neighborhood: Windsor Terrace Most Likely to: Surprise you Favorite Quote: “Girls just wanna have fun.” Lola Glass has a lot on her plate. She’s spray painted murals in Coney Island, at the Bushwick Collective, and at Art Basel in Miami. She’s also currently collaborating with Unfamous and Brooklyn Cloth to design…

Age: 27 Pronouns: She/Her Neighborhood: Crown Heights Most Likely To: keep it real with you (and have fly nails) Favorite Quote: “Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)” – Gloria E. Anzaldúa Lauren Argentina Zelaya has a fierce personality and an even…

Age: 28 Pronouns: She/her Neighborhood: Prospect Heights Most Likely to: Get the party started; Fight the Patriarchy; Have a Spontaneous Dance Party; Go Sky-diving; Have a silly-string fight Favorite Quote: “Nothing can make our lives, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness” – Leo Tolstoy As a member of the Safe…

Age: 29 Pronouns: She/Her Neighborhood: Flatbush Most Likely to: Takeover the planet, then vacation Favorite Quote: “My job is to somehow make them curious enough, or persuade them, by hook or crook, to get them more aware of themselves and where they came from and what they are into and what is already there, and just…

Age: 29 Pronouns: She/her Neighborhood: Ditmas Park Most Likely to: Win the Nobel Prize for a Graphic Novel Favorite Quote: “Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.” ― Anita Brookner, A Start in Life What do you do when you’re at a Junot Díaz reading and Junot, the literary…

Name: Jenny Treantafilos Age: 26 Pronouns: She/Her Neighborhood: Bushwick Most likely to: Give a hug when you need it most Favorite Quote: It’s more of a mantra “Trust the process.” But recently have randomly using, “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” to rally the cooks. It’s just motivating/corny enough to set…

Age: 29 Pronouns: She/Her Neighborhood: Clinton Hill Most Likely to: Host a fertility séance Favorite Quote: “Be here now” Product marketing manager at Planned Parenthood’s innovation lab, Hannah Pyper, has a strong connection to her role. After beating ovarian cancer, Hannah found a career that utilized her digital media background while ensuring women have proper…

Age: 26 Pronouns: She/her Neighborhood: Weeksville (Crown Heights) Most Likely To: Ride their bike in 20-degree weather Favorite Quote: “Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.” – Carl Jung After completing her master’s thesis at Pratt, Giovania Tiarachristie, or “G”, revived the…

Age: 28 Pronouns: She/her Neighborhood: Bed-Stuy Most Likely To: Ask to say “Hi” to your dog Favorite Quote: “I am a superficial woman of depth.” -Melissa Broder It’s no secret that magazines are struggling to keep up with the rapidly changing patterns of media consumption. Figuring out how to deal with the rocky media landscape…

Age: 26 Neighborhood: Lefferts Gardens Most Likely To: Bring Judith Butler into the conversation. Occupation: Writer, Editor, Organizer of Queer Community Favorite Quote: “You guys know about vampires? You know how, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror.  And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters…

Every year, our annual 30 under 30 lists highlight young Brooklynites who are marching fearlessly into the future, taking the borough with them―wherever they go. Following their lead, we asked ourselves what we could do better to ensure that these lists fairly reflects this borough’s population, and everything it has to offer. If not everything,…