One of the nation's rare Black female editors in chief and a 2020 Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, The Cut's Lindsay Peoples shares an invaluable view through the lens of inclusivity. Peoples returned to The Cut, New York Magazine's style and culture site, in 2021, after two years as editor in chief at Teen Vogue.

At Teen Vogue, she was the youngest editor in chief of a Condé Nast publication and one of the only Black journalists in leadership roles at the company's magazines. While there, she co-founded the Black in Fashion Council, which has enlisted the support of the Human Rights Campaign to provide benchmarking around corporate policies and practices pertinent to the inclusivity of Black employees. Under Peoples' leadership alongside Co-Founder Sandrine Charles, the Council established an Equality Index Score for companies across fashion and beauty brands and the media that covers them, created an industry-wide vetted directory with Color of Change, hosted job fairs for thousands of students, and hosts a Black designer showroom during New York Fashion Week twice a year. In addition, the British Fashion Council honored the Black In Fashion Council for its seminal work in the industry. 

Before Teen Vogue, Peoples spent five years as an editor at The Cut and New York Magazine, roles she assumed following her time as the fashion market reporter at Style.com. During this first tenure at The Cut, she won the 2017 ASME Next award, which honors outstanding achievements by magazine journalists under 30. She also wrote the critically-acclaimed "Everywhere and Nowhere: What it's really like to be Black and work in fashion." The piece featured more than 100 people of color's insights and perspectives on diversity in fashion. In 2019, she was celebrated among Business of Fashion's BoF 500. In 2020 she was also included on the 2020 "Root 100" list of the most influential African Americans and the Spotlight award from The International Center of Photography. In addition, in 2021, she was named Editor of the Year by Harlem's Fashion Row. In 2022, she received the Visionary Award from The Pratt Institute. 

Earlier in her career, Peoples spent two years as a fashion market assistant at Teen Vogue, where she returned after a stint at O, The Oprah Magazine. She began her career in fashion at Teen Vogue as an assistant working in the fashion closet under the founding editor in chief, Amy Astley. Peoples, who hails from Wisconsin, graduated from Buena Vista University with a bachelor's degree in art and journalism.