Leigh Cuen is a writer, journalist, and blockchain enthusiast based in New York City. ^[undefined] She is a reporter for CoinDesk and a columnist for Teen Vogue. ^[1] Cuen's work has been published in multiple languages including Spanish, Italian, English, Hebrew and Arabic. ^[undefined]

Cuen is originally from California. ^[undefined] In high school, she was an intern for the Orange County Register. ^[undefined] She attended the University of San Francisco and studied Media and Middle Eastern studies. ^[undefined] She earned a Bachelors degree in 2011. ^[undefined]

Early in her career, Cuen was a Reporter for El Tecolote, an Editorial Assistant for Crawdaddy!

Magazine, an Editorial Assistant for the Jewish news weekly of Northern California, and a Blogger for New Voices, Green Prophet, and The Rumpus.

^[undefined] She also worked for the Palestinian News Network San Francisco Public Press

When Cuen was 18-years old, she went to Jerusalem to study Arabic in an abroad program, but dropped out and started reporting from a refugee camp in Bethlehem instead.

In 2012, Cuen moved to Israel to further her career in writing and journalism. ^[undefined] While based in Tel Aviv, her articles appeared in several publications including Al Jazeera English, Salon, The Jerusalem Post, Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet), Culture Magazine, and World Literature Today. ^[undefined] In addition, her creative writing has been published in the International Museum of Women, Poetica Magazine, Dagda Publishing and War, Literature & the Arts. ^[undefined] During her time there, Cuen would stay in the homes of different Palestinian familes as well as an Israeli family. ^[undefined] One of the proudest of Cuen's career was her piece on revolutionary Syrian poetry for Al Jazeera English. ^{[undefined] [undefined]}

Cuen first heard about Bitcoin in 2015 when she was working at a media company in Tel Aviv with a team of darknet experts who trained in elite military units.

Her manager assigned her to write a story on the subject of people buying drugs with cryptocurrency.

^[undefined] She would write blockchain related stories for Newsweek Media Group and would join CoinDesk in 2018. ^{[undefined] [undefined]}

Cuen is a columnist for Teen Vogue and has written for the International Business Times, Mic, HuffPost, Racked, New York Daily News, Christian Science Monitor, and Forbes. ^[undefined]