In 2010, one of my advisors at KU, Dr. Barney Warf, tapped me to assist with editor duties for the AAG journal The Professional Geographer. Barney served two four-year terms as editor and hired me to help screen manuscripts for style and content, find peer reviewers, and communicate feedback to authors. This job allowed me to engage with a wide-array of literature from every conceivable sub-field of geography, and interact with top scholars from around the globe. I also got an inside view into academic publishing, the editorial and peer-review process. Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of working for the PG was its nature as a journal for applied research, every manuscript I read and paper we published was applicable to real world problems or emerged from fieldwork or on-the-ground research.