Molly Oleson
Molly Oleson is a print and multimedia journalist with a background in fine art and extensive experience in writing, photographing and editing for various newspapers and magazines.
After earning a B.F.A. in Painting from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, and after studying creative writing and journalism, Molly began to combine her two passions: writing and art.
She served as Editor of City College of San Francisco’s award-winning Etc. magazine, where she also wrote feature stories, photographed and contributed to design. Molly has written for a San Francisco neighborhood newspaper, contributed photography to the San Francisco Chronicle and Nomic magazine, contributed to Juxtapoz magazine and interned at Sierra magazine, where she wrote weekly blogs for the magazine’s Green Life section, and where she continues to freelance.
Molly’s reporting has led her to farms in Australia and New Zealand, ashrams in India and fishing villages in South Africa.
Currently, she is an assistant editor, writer, photographer, multimedia producer and illustrator at Mission Local, a hyperlocal news site in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Molly aims to find creative ways of combining writing, art, photography and video to tell compelling stories of fascinating people and places.