Alexi McCammond Parts Ways With Teen Vogue, Won’t Be Next Editor In Chief After Furor Over Past Tweets

Alexi McCammond, who was to take over as the next editor in chief of Teen Vogue, has instead resigned amid a furor over offensive tweets she posted as a teenager resurfaced.

“My past tweets have overshadowed the work I’ve done to highlight the people and issues that I care about — issues that Teen Vogue has worked tirelessly to share with the world — and so Conde Nast and I have decided to part ways,” she wrote in a statement posted on Twitter.

She added, “I should not have tweeted what I did and I have taken full responsibility for that. I look at my work and growth in the years since, and have redoubled my commitment to growing in the years to come as both a person and as a professional.”

McCammond, 27, covered Joe Biden’s presidential campaign for Axios and has been a contributor to NBC News and MSNBC. When she was named to the Teen Vogue post, one journalist, Diana Tsui, shared some of McCammond’s tweets from 2011, that included offensive and racist tweets about Asian Americans.

“I’m tired of big media organizations pretending to give a damn about diversity and inclusion,” Tsui wrote. “And this especially is a slap in the face given what’s happened to Asian Americans in the past year.”

McCammond, an African American, wrote, “I became a journalist to help lift up the stories and voices of our most vulnerable communities. As a young woman of color, that’s part of the reason I was so excited to lead the Teen Vogue team in its next chapter.”

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