Emmalyse Brownstein is a freelance writer and journalist. Most recently, she wrote a feature on Gen Zers flocking to work for billionaires: Megayachts, dog poop, and NDAs. She also launched a Substack called Interesting Person where she publishes personal essays and blogs.

Before freelancing, Emmalyse spent three years covering Wall Street culture for Business Insider. Her stories took readers inside some of the world’s most powerful financial institutions, illuminating everything from the high-pressure lives of junior bankers and Gen Z’s arrival on Wall Street to internal clashes over return-to-office mandates, the industry’s cutthroat recruiting culture, and the emergence of Wall Street South.

She previously reported for McClatchy Media’s network of local newspapers; wrote about music, arts, and culture for Miami New Times; and spent a summer copyediting news wire stories at The New York Times.

Essays

• Status, Spectacle, and a latex Ferrari outfit

Features

• America's most boring job is on the brink of extinction

• How student finance clubs seized control of the path to Wall Street

• Inside Citadel interns’ week at The Four Seasons

• Wall Street's notoriously competitive culture is making its youngest recruits lonelier than ever

• How to talk like a banker

Profiles

• When companies like Facebook and Zillow IPO, they turn to this man

• Coming out on Wall Street

Scoops & Investigations

• Private equity giant TPG halts early recruiting

• Leaked memo: Inside JPMorgan's RTO plan for its largest office

• Goldman Sachs is getting a facelift, but some insiders are unimpressed

• Why Wall Street is transfixed by a BofA banker's untimely death

• Goldman Sachs partner exodus: The full list