After a brief hiatus following her short-lived tenure as Teen Vogue's editor-in-chief, McCammond picked up her mantle as a political journalist reporting for NBC News and later returning to Axios.

Social media users uncovered that Christine Davitt, a senior social media manager for Teen Vogue, used the n-word in three tweets posted from 2009-2010.

Alexi McCammond, an award-winning Black journalist, is at the center of controversy after social media users uncovered homophobic and anti-Asian tweets from 2011.