Helaina Hovitz Regal
YOUR IMPACT MATTERS HERE
As a career impact journalist and editor, Helaina specializes in storytelling for social good. Her mission is to empower businesses and nonprofits to share impactful narratives that resonate with their audience and promote positive change.
How do you get people to care as much about your impact as you do? By creating narratives and campaigns that highlight real people, tangible outcomes, and demonstrate meaningful impact. This content travels across blogs, social media channels, newsletters, donor messaging, and media outreach, making your work feel personal and meaningful.
Stories of Social Good
Helaina has dedicated her life to telling stories that shine a light on people and projects making the world a better place.
From grassroots nonprofits to inspiring individuals and to bold social change initiatives, she's captured the moments that show hope, creativity, and impact in action.
Explore her work in Forbes, Huffington Post, Vice, Newsweek, Teen Vogue, Fortune, Reader's Digest, Glamour and many more.
The Impact Edit at a Glance
If you want to take control of your narrative, expand your audience organically, and inspire hope, you're in the right place. Helaina is not limited by sector, but she is guided by values, integrity, and human impact.
What do you want people to feel? What do you wish more people understood? The most powerful narratives carry both heart and substance. They go beyond facts to reveal lived experiences, real change, and the emotional truth of your impact. People don’t act because they’re informed. They act because they feel something. Shaping stories that create genuine emotional connection, ensure that your work not just seen, but deeply felt.
The goal is never not clicks. It is connection. Building trust, deepen engagement, and expand your reach happens when audiences understand the real world impact behind what you do. When people can see and feel your impact, they engage with it. And when they engage, they act.
Meet Helaina
Helaina is a Native New Yorker and proud rescue dog mom who brings heart, humor, and curiosity to everything she does. Her deep sense of empathy comes across in her work to find hope anywhere and everywhere. She passionately dives in to stories about the good that people and organizations do in the world, especially when it feels, at times, unbearably broken. She began her career as a local news journalist who wrote inspirational and meaningful stories and continued to carve out a path in what was often a difficult and less celebrated corner of media. Her love of spotlighting the good has always guided her work, and she believes wholeheartedly in the transformative power of kindness.
Her bylines can be found in Forbes, Huffington Post, The New York Times, Salon, Newsday, Teen Vogue, Glamour, Chicago Tribune, VICE, Thrillist, Newsweek, Prevention, Reader's Digest, New York Observer, BuzzFeed, Greatist, Gothamist, The LA Times, SCENE Magazine, Narratively, PBS's Next Avenue, Business Insider, Fortune, HEALTH, Upworthy, Stamford Courant, The Advocate, Psych Central, Fast Company, Women's Health, and Tasting Table, among many others.
She has served as the NYC Restaurant Guide Editor for The Daily Meal and has an extensive background in Mental Health journalism and advocacy.She previously held the positions of Editor of Branded Content at Upworthy/GOOD and Managing Editor of The Good News Network
Helaina's story—and her book, After 9/11—have been featured by CBS, PBS Newshour, The TODAY Show, 1010Wins, PEOPLE, New York 1, WPIX11, The Atlantic, Psych Central, SHAPE, NBC, Epoch Times, CTV (Canada) Wall Street Journal, The Australian TODAY Show, VOX News, Scholastic Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and the Toronto Star.
Mental Health
Through her writing and public speaking, Helaina connects with audiences of all ages using humor, vulnerability, and candid storytelling to bring hope and solutions to complex challenges. Helaina offers insights that support both personal growth and clinical understanding. Her mission is to normalize mental health conversations, provide resources for those navigating the landscape, and inspire resilience, hope and empathy.
Helaina was just 12 years old and in school three blocks from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when she witnessed the towers collapse, ran through clouds of debris, and spent months surviving in a neighborhood turned war zone. Her memoir explores the lasting, undiagnosed impact of PTSD—not only as a personal reckoning, but as a reflection of the invisible scars carried by a generation. At its core, After 9/11 is a story of resilience, recovery, and hope, tracing a child’s navigation of trauma and a young woman’s gradual movement toward healing.
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