Bassi Gruen is the managing editor of Family First. She plans the magazine’s content, conceptualizes columns, assigns articles, reviews submissions, and works with writers, editors, proofreaders, and graphic artists. She enjoys both the craft and the process of creating the magazine, and loves being part of a global family of thinking Jewish women.

Bassi was previously the editorial director of Targum Press. In addition to her editing work, Bassi has published hundreds of articles for a variety of publications, and wrote “A Mother’s Musings” (ArtScroll, 2008). A licensed social worker, Bassi worked as a therapist for several years before moving from listening to people’s stories to writing about them.

When she’s not working or experimenting in the kitchen, Bassi enjoys playing board games and hiking with her husband and children, because, after all —family first.