Hi! I’m Carolyn Gearig.

I’m a user research and product strategy consultant. Through identifying and building around user needs, I help organizations build products that drive revenue and engagement.

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Hi! I'm Carolyn, a user researcher and product manager based in Brooklyn, NY. Through my work at local and national news organizations and civic technology companies, I've explored how people connect with news, information, and each other.

Most recently, I led non-subscriber product management and user research across 29 newspapers and 9 magazines at McClatchy Media. Before that, I was the first product manager at Prolegis, built experimental local news products at WhereBy.Us, and was an early product hire at Axios. 

Outside work, I'm a documentary film photographer currently capturing New York City subway stations, a project I began in 2018. I love photographing weddings and using photography as a tool to explore New York City, my home of 8 years. I'm also a certified reiki healer, providing low-cost energy healing in Brooklyn. 

I'm a regular meditator and frequent solo traveler — I’ve traveled alone on 5 continents. In 2023, I took a sabbatical and spent six months in India, Nepal, and Thailand, where I deepened my spiritual practice, completed a weeklong silent retreat and hiked to some very high altitudes.