Zina Klapper is a Los Angeles-based writer/editor/consultant who has worked with Joel Kotkin in multiple aspects of report presentation. Her journalism background includes stints creating public presentations for the Levy Economics Institute, as Managing Editor of Mother Jones, as an investigative reporter for RCM Capital Management, and as a senior editor at Playgirl. Her writing has appeared nationwide, including Women Ascendant: Where Females Are Rising the Fastest, co-written with Joel Kotkin, at Forbes.