Raina Kelley Named Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of The Undefeated
Raina Kelley, managing editor of The Undefeated since November 2015, has been promoted to Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of the ESPN multimedia initiative exploring the intersections of sports, race and culture. Kelley will be responsible for the editorial direction and oversight for The Undefeated. She succeeds Kevin Merida who launched the project five years ago, and will report to Mark Walker, Senior Vice President, Content Business Development and Innovation.
As Merida’s first hire for The Undefeated’s senior management team, Kelley has been instrumental in the platform’s growth and helped steer The Undefeated’s content expansion across The Walt Disney Company units via the “Music For The Movement” series, a collaboration with Disney Music Group’s Hollywood Records. She leads ESPN’s Black History Always, a companywide content initiative powered by The Undefeated that highlights the contr
Fostering family: In three years, Seventh Heaven Rescue has placed more than 400 dogs in new homes
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A friendly collie named George frolics around Jana Dosztan-Reiss’s backyard with his foster siblings, a lively group of dogs Dosztan-Reiss and her husband, Steve Reiss, refer to as their pack. Right now, the pack is made up of 12 dogs, nine of them their own.
In 2018, the couple founded Seventh Heaven Rescue, a foster-based rescue. That year, they took in about 20 dogs, operating out of their home in Syracuse.
In 2019, the first full year of rescues, they took 98.
Last year, they took in 245.
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Technically, yes. And also, no.
Yes, because Reiss is a member of Mensa who has written, co-written, edited or contributed to more than 70 books, including “6 Practice Tests for the SAT,” which Reiss co-authored with Philip Geer and which recently reached No. 1 best-seller status on Amazon. He is also the founder of the Math Magician math-instruction company and Reiss SAT Seminars. He is good with numbers, and numbers have been very good to him.
And no, because while math is how Reiss makes a living, it isn’t what he lives for.
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“People say, ‘You must love math,’ and the answer is, ‘Not exactly,’” Reiss said in a phone interview from his home in Imperial Beach. “But what I love is being with kids and adults and helping them out. I love the time I spend with them, and I love to inspire them. I don’t have any pretentions about math. It is is just something you’ve got to get through.”