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Garrott Graham (2023) is a producer at the Search Engine podcast.
Carrigan Miller (2023) is editor in chief of the quarterly KGB Lit.
Grace Heerman (2023) is working on a podcast series called “Tell Me About the Farm” about America’s farms and ranches. She is a story editor and associate producer for the podcast Everything is Stories.
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Laura Jedeed (2023) writes about politics for The New Republic, New Lines Magazine, and Rolling Stone.
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Michael Levy (2023) is the editor and founder of Summit Journal.
Mormei Zanke (2023) is a Communications Manager at the Natural Areas Conservancy.
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Noran Morsi (2023) is a PA at the Drew Barrymore Show.
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Sarah Baik (2023) is a producer at 99% Invisible.
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Anna Venarchik (2022) is an editing resident, The New York Times.
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Clarissa Fragoso Pinheiro (2022) was an editor at the Paris Review, and is now an assistant editor at Harper’s magazine.
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Merray Gerges (2022) is a visiting editor at Momus.
Darshana Narayanan is a producer at the World Science Festival.
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Emily Carmichael (2022) is the managing editor at Fifty Grande.
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Meg Duff (2022) is a science writer and podcaster whose work appears in Slate and the Outside Magazine podcast.
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Kudrat Wadhwa (2022) is a senior editor at Represent, a magazine that publishes personal and reported stories by youth in foster care. She also writers for Rest of World, New Lines Magazine, and The Verge.
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Pooja Salhotra (2022) is an Austin based reporter at the Texas Tribune.
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Tenzin Tsagong (2022) is an editorial assistant at the opinion section of The New York Times.
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Xinrou Shu (2022) is a China based writer whose work appears in the South China Morning Post, Rest of World, Sixth Tone, and The China Project.
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Meghan Gunn (2021) is a staff writer at Newsweek magazine.
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Nate File (2021) is a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Divya Karthikeyan (2021) is a Race & Equity reporter for Louisville Public Media. She was previously the Capitol reporter for the Kentucky Public Radio Network. She interned for The New Republic, wrote for the Gotham Gazette, and recently produced and hosted a podcast about race, class and immigration.
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Marialexa Kavanaugh (2021) is a freelance audio reporter and producer. She has most recently worked with Pineapple Street Studios on narrative podcasts like “9/12” and “Will Be Wild,” and also helps produce “Undistracted,” activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham’s weekly interview show.
Jenna Barnett (2021) is an associate culture editor for Sojourners, and the associate culture editor for Sojourners, where she has a humor column.
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Kimon de Greef (2021) is a freelance journalist from South Africa. His first book was, Poacher: Confessions from the Abalone Underworld, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, Guernica, National Geographic and other publications. He is a member of the first cohort selected for the Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship.
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Edith Rousselot (2021) is journalist and an associate producer at Pushkin Industries.
Elizabeth Weissberg (2020) is a writer and editor. She was an Elsewhere Studios artist-in-residence in 2021 and did residencies at Peñasco Theatre and Soaring Gardens in 2022.
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Mycah Hazel (2020) is an assistant producer at Radio Diaries.
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Søren Steensig (2020) is a freelance journalist, based in Copenhagen. Working for a number of Danish outlets, he writes mostly on (alternative) lifestyle(s), history and science.
Jason Stavers (2020) is the editor in chief at Prof G Media. His ten part podcast, Bonaparte, appeared in 2022.
Robyn Lanz (2020) is the co-host and producer of the podcast, Do We Like?
Kaitlyn Nichols (2020) is the producer of the Wall Street Journal podcast, “The Future of Everything”.
Sevindj Nurkiyazova is a journalist and photographer in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Spencer Green (2019) is a writer and fact checker who has worked on books and for magazines like The Nation. He is currently a Reporter-Researcher at The New Republic, in their DC office.
Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa (2019) is a fact checker at The New Yorker magazine, and has written for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The Nation, Artforum, and ArtNews.
Neel Dhanesha (2019) is a staff writer for the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. He was previously a founding staff writer at Heatmap, and a science and climate reporter at Vox.
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DJ Cashmere (2019) is a producer on The Ten Percent Happier Podcast with Dan Harris and a freelance journalist. He is reporting and producing a documentary for APM Reports and producing a new interview podcast for Public Books and Type Media.
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Jerad W. Alexander (2019) is the author of Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War. From 1998 to 2006, he served as a U.S. Marine, deploying to the Mediterranean, East Africa, and Iraq . He has written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Narratively, and elsewhere.
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Maham Hasan (2019) is an editing resident at The New York Times. She was previously an associate producer at Vanity Fair.
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Karen Sims (2019) is a creative writing PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Georgia State University. Her research interests include myth, formal fiction, and food narratives. As an assistant editor and reader for Five Points literary journal, she writes on the intersection of food, craft, and literature. You can contact her at ksims34@gsu.edu.
Liz Cantrell (2018) is an associate editor at Travel + Leisure magazine.
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Natalie Coleman (2018) is a New York-based editor, writer, and researcher whose work has appeared in Futurism.com, Nautilus, Electric Literature, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She is an editorial assistant with Penguin Press.
Oliver Conroy (2018) is a writer, and deputy US opinion editor and a staff feature writer at The Guardian (US).
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Marina Koslock (2018) is an audio storyteller and assistant producer at The Heart.
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Laura Lee Huttenbach (2018) is a writer based in New York City. She is the author of two books. “The Boy is Gone: Conversations with a Mau Mau General,” and “Running with Raven”.
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Melissa Pinel is the producer of the Indomables podcast.
Ula Kulpa (2018) Ulka Kulpa is a producer and script editor on “Fiasco.” Before joining Prologue Projects, she helped produce “Crimetown Presents: The RFK Tapes,” and the independent podcast, “Going Forward.”
Ryan Sweikert (2018) is a senior producer at Truth Media. He led the production of Firebug, a ten-episode true-crime documentary series, named one of Rolling Stone’s 10 Best Crime Podcasts of 2021.
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Morgan Sykes (2018) is a writer living in New York City.
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Mathew Rodriguez (2017) was a senior editor at The Atlantic, Them and The Body. His work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Slate, The Village Voice, SELF, Out, The Advocate, INTO, TheBody, POZ, Remezcla and Mic. He is writing a young adult graphic novel through Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, as well as a memoir for Abrams Books.
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Carson Frame (2017) is a military and veteran’s issues reporter for Texas Public Radio and The American Homefront Project.
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Zachary Leja (2017) works at CNN helping produce documentary and news specials.
Sarah Stodder (2017) is the Editorial Operations & Research Director at Alta Journal. She is working with an agent on a book project. She was the winner of the 2017 Threesis Academic Challenge at NYU.
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Sarah Aziza (2017) is a freelance journalist who has written for The Intercept, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Nation, and other publications. She was awarded a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting for a summer 2018 project in Saudi Arabia on political suppression.
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Kate Essig (2017) is a writer and audio journalist who has worked on the following audio projects: We Live Here, Onassis Foundation Podcast Project, Playdate with Sarah Jones through Public Radio International, Studio 360.
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Lindsey J. Smith (2016) is a freelance journalist and essayist based in San Francisco. She has published work in Smithsonian, The Verge, Pacific Standard, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco magazine, Undark, and Wild Hope, among others. She was formerly the associate editor at San Francisco magazine, where she dove deep into San Francisco’s struggle with public injection drug use, California’s imperiled kelp forests, and the fertility industry. She was a proud member of the team that won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2018.
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Jas Chana (2016) is a media & communications manager at the Tenement Museum, working to position it as a leading voice in immigration debate.
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Natalie Lampert (2016) is a freelance journalist based in Boulder, CO. She has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Guardian, among other publications. Her book, “The Big Freeze: A Reporter’s Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility” was published in 2024. A former Fulbright Scholar, she was a 2017 Logan Nonfiction fellow and a 2016 FASPE fellow.
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Renee Saleh (2016) is working on a book based on her thesis.
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Margaret Whitehead (2016) is a writer, researcher and editor based in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Her journalism has appeared in Atavist Magazine, the Boston Globe, Transition Magazine, the Millions, Narratively, Joyland, Reason Magazine, and in the Lambda Literary anthology, Emerge.
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Hannah McCarthy (2016) is a podcast host and producer at New Hampshire Public Radio and winner of the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Reporting in Any Medium on International Environmental Issues. She is the co-author of A User’s Guide to Democracy: How America Works.
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Laura Smith (2015) is the author of The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust. She is the deputy editor of California Magazine.
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Lance Richardson (2015) is the author of House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row and is working on a biography, “True Nature: On the Path of Peter Matthiessen.”
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Colin Warren-Hicks (2015) is a professional journalist who has held reporter positions at multiple daily newspapers including the The Herald-Sun and News & Observer in North Carolina, where he won two AP Walter Spearman awards, recognizing “outstanding writing” by a journalist with two years or less experience, and as of 2022, he was the ‘Family Forward’ reporter for the Pensacola News Journal, part of the USA Today Network.
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Elizabeth Flock (2015) is a freelance journalist with a focus on gender and justice and author of “The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice.” Her first book,“The Heart is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai,” was published in 2018. Her work has appeared on the PBS NewsHour, in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Atlantic and many other publications. She won an Emmy in 2018 for her investigation for NewsHour into sexual harassment, assault and retaliation in the U.S. Forest Service.
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Johnny Bontemps (2014) is a former producer at StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson. He is currently working on a book about the history of astrology.
Molly Socha (2014) is a podcast producer for NBCUniversal and a radio producer for SiriusXM.
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Corrie Mitchell (2014) is a Marketing & Content Specialist at Hope for New York.
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Nicole Pasulka is a senior features editor at Cosmopolitan, and writes about gender, activism, and criminal justice for publications such as New York, Harper’s, Mother Jones, VICE, and The Believer. The recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships, her writing has been anthologized in the Best American series and featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. Her first book is How You Get Famous (Simon & Schuster, 2022).
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Taylor Beck (2014) writes about the brain and mental illness for publications like the LA Review of Books, and The Atlantic etc. He’s working on a book proposal while teaching science at Pierrepont School, a private school for gifted kids in Connecticut.
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Amelia Schonbek’s (2014) work focuses on the ways that politics and social policy shape individual lives. She works at New York magazine, where she has recently reported on restorative justice, pro-choice faith communities, and the experiences of young people during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Kelsey Kudak (2014) is a writer, fact checker and has worked on eight books including Ted Conover’s “Immersion,” and Eliza Griswold’s “Amity and Prosperity.” She was a Banff Literary Journalism Fellow in 2014.
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Heather Rodgers (2014) is a producer and reporter at “Science Vs.,” a podcast produced by Gimlet Media.
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Sean Patrick Cooper (2013) is a journalist and Senior Writer at Tablet Magazine. His journalism and essays have appeared in The New Republic, n+1, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Baffler, The Atavist, Victory Journal, The Awl, and There Is No Outside: Covid-19 Dispatches, published by Verso. His book, The Shooter at Midnight, was published in 2024.
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Per Liljas (2013) is a freelance reporter.
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Cody Upton (2013) is the executive director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is currently working on a book.
Will Hunt (2013) is the author of Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet, and starting a new project about the human relationship to the ancestral dead.
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Matthew Wolfe (2013) is finishing up his PhD in sociology and writing a book about missing persons, while occasionally freelancing for magazines.
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Andrea Munoz (2012) is a writer and localization associate at Slack.
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Dan Kedmey (2012) is the founding producer of Your Undivided Attention. He was previously a senior producer of Masters of Scale, a reporter at TIME and a staff writer at TED Conferences.
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Kristi Goldade (2012) is the Co-Founder at Pando Little School, a Reggio-Emilia inspired preschool in Albuquerque, NM.
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Khristopher J. Brooks (2012) is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch, and teaches journalism at Hunter College.
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Andrew Marantz (2011) is a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine, and the author of Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians and the Hijacking of the American Conversation.
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Robert Moor (2011) is a freelance writer, working on a book entitled “In Trees: An Exploration,” a follow up to his book, “On Trails: An Exploration.”
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Marta Martinez-Martinez (2011) is a senior editor at Latino USA.
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Katherine Don (2011) is a freelance communications consultant and book editor.
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