Sara Mitchell is the editor-in-chief of Samples Magazine. A former retail buyer with more than a decade of experience tracking brand sampling programs, she now spends her days vetting the latest free skincare, baby, and food sample offers so readers don't have to. Before joining Samples Magazine, she spent years on the other side of the industry, negotiating shelf space and sampling campaigns with the same kinds of brands she now reports on, which is exactly why she knows where the fine print tends to hide.
She's especially picky about anything that asks for a credit card before you've even seen the product, and she'd rather leave a deal off the site entirely than publish one she wouldn't sign up for herself. Every offer that goes up on Samples Magazine passes through Sara first, who checks the shipping windows, the subscription traps, and whether a 'free sample' is actually free before it ever reaches readers.
She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she has strong opinions about coffee and even stronger ones about the contents of her bathroom cabinet, a small graveyard of half-used sample-size lotions she can't quite bring herself to throw away. She's also the office's unofficial taste-tester for anything that shows up marked 'trial size,' and keeps a running list of the ones actually worth reordering in full.
