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Michael Friedrich
Michael Friedrich is a journalist who writes about cities and housing.

Zoë Beery
Zoë Beery is a writer and audio producer in Brooklyn. 

Madeleine Wattenbarger
Madeleine Wattenbarger is a journalist based in Mexico City, where she covers social movements and human rights.

Robert Raymond
Robert Raymond (@robpertray) is the Founding Producer of the Upstream Podcast and Senior Producer, Designer, and Creative Director of The Response. 

Bradley Babendir
Bradley Babendir is a fiction writer and critic. He lives in Somerville, MA.

Paul Pelletier
Paul Pelletier served as a federal prosector in Miami and Washington, D.C. for more than twenty-five years. As Chief and Principal Deputy Chief of DOJ’s Fraud Section, from 2002 through 2011 he led DOJ’s nationwide financial crime enforcement efforts. He is currently in ...

Tom Sexton
Tom Sexton is the cohost of the Trillbilly Workers Party podcast and is based out of Whitesburg, Kentucky.

Logan Scherer
Logan Scherer’s writing has appeared in Tin House and online at The Atlantic, The Awl, Broadly, and elsewhere.

Noah Kulwin
Noah Kulwin is a writer in New York. He cohosts the political history podcast Blowback.

Matthew McKnight
Matthew McKnight is a writer and editor living in New Orleans. His writing has appeared in The Point, The Nation, and The New Yorker. He was a 2019–2020 Biography Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY’s Graduate Center in support of a forthcoming biography ...

Lia Russell
Lia Russell is a freelance writer based in the Bay Area who has written for The American Prospect, Scalawag Magazine, and others. More work can be found at liaruss.com or on Twitter @liaoffleash.