BIM ADEWUNMI is a Nigerian British journalist, playwright and podcast host. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Vogue, Monocle, Vogue, and BuzzFeed News, where she is a senior culture writer. She lives in New York.
HOWARD BRYANT has been a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine since 2007. He has been the sports correspondent for NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday since 2006 and is the author of eight books, Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston (2002); Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball (2005); The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron (2010); Legends (2014–present), a three-book sports series for middle-grade readers; Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams (2018); and The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism (2018). He is also a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, in 2016 and 2018.
TA-NEHISI COATES is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power.
RONAN FARROW is an investigative journalist who writes for The New Yorker and makes documentaries for HBO. He is the author of the bestselling War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence and is at work on a new book, Catch and Kill, that will explore the sexual misconduct of powerful men and the systems in place to keep victims quiet. Farrow has been an anchor and reporter at MSNBC and NBC News, and his writing has appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He is a winner of the George Polk Award, the National Magazine Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, among other commendations, and has been named one of Time’s One Hundred Most Influential People. He is also an attorney and former State Department official. He lives in New York City.
IAN FRAZIER is the author of twelve books, including Great Plains, On the Rez, and Travels in Siberia. His work appears often in The New Yorker, as well as in The New York Review of Books, Outside, and other magazines.
AZMAT KHAN is an investigative journalist and a Future of War fellow at New America and Arizona State University. For an investigation into the civilian death toll of the U.S.-led war against ISIS, published in the New York Times Magazine as “The Uncounted,” she teamed with ANAND GOPAL, an assistant research professor at Arizona State and the author of No Good Men Among the Living.
ALEX MAR is a writer based in her hometown of New York City. Her first book, Witches of America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), was a New York Times Notable Book of 2015 in nonfiction, a New York Times Editors’ Pick, a Marie Claire “Top Book-Club Pick,” and one of The Believer’s “Favorite Books,” Huffington Post Books’ “Most Notable” and The Millions’ “Most Anticipated Books.” Some of her recent work has appeared in The Believer, Elle, the Guardian, New York, the New York Times Book Review, Tin House, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Wired, and The Oxford American, where she is a contributing editor. She was nominated for a 2018 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and her essays were included in both Longreads and BuzzFeed “Best of 2016” year-end lists. She is also the director of the 2010 feature-length documentary American Mystic, now streaming on Amazon. Mar is currently at work on her second nonfiction book, for Penguin Press.
NINA MARTIN covers sex and gender issues for ProPublica. She joined the staff in September 2013 after spending much of the last decade at San Francisco as articles editor (since 2007) and executive editor (from 2003 to 2005). Martin has been a reporter and editor specializing in women’s legal and health issues for more than thirty years. Her early career included stints at the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune. Her work has appeared in many magazines, including Elle, Health, Mother Jones, and The Nation. Martin is based in Berkeley, California.
RENEE MONTAGNE is a special correspondent at NPR. Montagne cohosted NPR’s Morning Edition—the most widely heard radio news program in the United States—from 2004 to 2016, broadcasting from NPR West in Culver City, California, with cohosts Steve Inskeep and David Greene at NPR’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. She hosted All Things Considered with Robert Siegel for two years in the late 1980s and previously worked for NPR’s Science, National, and Foreign desks. In 1994, she and a team of NPR reporters won a prestigious Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for coverage of South Africa’s historic presidential and parliamentary elections. Through most of the 1980s, Montagne was based in New York, working as an independent producer and reporter for both NPR and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Before that, she worked as a reporter and editor for Pacific News Service in San Francisco. She began her career as news director of the city’s community radio station, KPOO, while still at university. Montagne graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, as a Phi Beta Kappa. Her career includes serving as a fellow at the University of Southern California with the National Arts Journalism Program and teaching broadcast writing at New York University’s Graduate Department of Journalism. In addition to the DuPont-Columbia Award, Montagne has been honored by the Overseas Press Club for her coverage of Afghanistan and by the National Association of Black Journalists for a series on black musicians going to war in the twentieth century.
LAURIE PENNY is an award-winning journalist, essayist, public speaker, writer, activist, internet nanocelebrity, and author of six books. Her most recent book, Bitch Doctrine, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017.
KRISTEN ROUPENIAN a writer living in Michigan. She holds an MFA in fiction from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University. Her fiction has appeared in the Colorado Review and The New Yorker.
GINGER THOMPSON is a senior reporter at ProPublica. A Pulitzer Prize winner, she previously spent fifteen years at the New York Times, including time as a Washington correspondent and as an investigative reporter whose stories revealed Washington’s secret role in Mexico’s fight against drug traffickers. Thompson served as the Mexico City Bureau chief for both the Times and the Baltimore Sun. While at the Times, she covered Mexico’s transformation from a one-party state to a fledgling multiparty democracy and parachuted into breaking news events across the region, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela. For her work in the region, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer’s Gold Medal for Public Service. She won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, an InterAmerican Press Association Award, and an Overseas Press Club Award. Thompson was also part of a team of national reporters at the Times that was awarded a 2000 Pulitzer Prize for the series “How Race Is Lived in America.” Thompson graduated from Purdue University, where she was managing editor of the campus newspaper, the Exponent. She earned a master of public policy from George Washington University, with a focus on human rights law.
ALEX TIZON was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self.
REBECCA TRAISTER is writer at large at New York. She writes a regular column for the Cut, as well as features and columns for the print magazine, covering women in politics, media, and culture. Traister was previously a senior editor at The New Republic and, before that, spent ten years at Salon. She is a contributor to Elle and has also written for Glamour, Marie Claire, The Nation, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, and other publications. Traister was awarded the 2016 Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism and has won several Front Page Awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York, as well as the 2012 Mirror Award for Best Commentary, Digital Media, from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. She is the author of All the Single Ladies (Simon & Schuster), a New York Times best-seller and Notable Book of 2016, which was also named one of the best books of 2016 by the Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Library Journal, and NPR. Her first book, Big Girls Don’t Cry, about women in the 2008 election, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and the winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. Her third book, Good and Mad, about women’s anger as a political catalyst, will be published by Simon & Schuster in the fall of 2018.
DON VAN NATTA JR. is a senior writer for ESPN the Magazine and a contributor to ESPN’s Emmy Award–winning show Outside the Lines. Before joining ESPN in 2012, Van Natta worked for sixteen years as an investigative correspondent for the New York Times, where he was a member of two reporting teams to win the Pulitzer Prize. Van Natta is the New York Times-best-selling author of three books, First Off the Tee, Her Way, and Wonder Girl. For four consecutive years, Van Natta’s writing for ESPN was anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series. He lives in Miami with his wife, the journalist Lizette Alvarez, and their two daughters.
DAVID WALLACE-WELLS is deputy editor at New York magazine, where he also writes about science and the near future, including his recent cover story on worst-case scenarios for climate change (which was the most-read New York magazine story ever); his recurring “Tomorrow” column, on the future of science and technology; and his 2015 cover story about the epidemic of honey-bee deaths (the first magazine story to put the blame on neonicitinoid pesticides, which is now accepted science). He joined the magazine as literary editor in 2011, became features director in 2016, and has overseen the magazine’s family of podcasts in addition to his writing and editing. Wallace-Wells has appeared on WNBC’s News 4 New York, KCRW’s To the Point, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, BBC World Service, and more. Before joining New York magazine, Wallace-Wells was deputy editor at The Paris Review, where he edited and published writers such as Ann Beattie, Jonathan Franzen, Werner Herzog, and Janet Malcolm, among others, and interviewed William Gibson as part of the magazine’s “Writers at Work” series. He previously served as the New York Sun’s books editor. Wallace-Wells graduated from Brown University with a degree in history. He is currently working on a book about the meaning of climate change.
SETH WICKERSHAM is a senior writer for ESPN the Magazine and a contributor to ESPN’s Emmy Award–winning platform Outside the Lines. A native of Anchorage, Alaska, Wickersham was hired by ESPN after graduation from the Missouri School of Journalism. He has profiled the likes of Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, John Elway, Peyton Manning and Y. A. Tittle and, with Don Van Natta, has written investigations into the NFL’s handling of the Spygate cheating controversy and the inside accounts of the Rams and Raiders franchise relocations. Together, they are writing an NFL book, titled Powerball. Wickersham has won many awards and has been anthologized by in Best American Sports Writing series several times, and he is part of a staff that has three times won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children. He is credited as playing himself in the 2014 movie Draft Day, though the scene was cut before it was shot.