Being that she's never held a real job, has had an alarming number of very short term (wtf did she do??) unpaid internships in the past 3-4 years, and has had six years of post high school education with no visible financial struggle while living in new York city (she went t school in Chicago but she's NYC born and bred, and back there now): she's a trust fund kid who wants very badly to count as an oppressed minority. She was "published" in that "journal" because she's got the cahs to spare - or at least, her parents have.