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Editorial Team
Executive Director: Maya Schenwar
Managing Editor: Victoria Harper
Lead Investigative Reporter: Jason Leopold
Managing Editor, BuzzFlash: Mark Karlin
Senior Editor and Multimedia Coordinator: Sari Gelzer
Editor and Columnist: William Rivers Pitt
Content Relations Editor: Leslie Thatcher
Solutions Editor: Dina Rasor
Assistant Editors: Alissa Bohling, Yana Kunichoff
Copy Editor: Alexa deMonterice
Reporter: Mike Ludwig
Fellows: Britney Schultz, Tolu Olorunda
Intern: Martha Sorren
Production and Tech Team
Digital Liaison/Designer/Photo Editor: Jared Rodriguez
Videographer/Designer/Photo Editor: Lance Page
Community Liaison: Joseph Peterson
Fellow: Paul Mutter
Development Team
Director of Development and Communications: Matt Renner
Administrative Manager: Annie Stoddard
Development and Communications Associate: Joe Macaré
Financial Administrator: Kendel Gordon
Development Interns: Zach Swim, Alex Hayes
Contributing Writers
Dirk Adriaensens, Rose Aguilar, Max Ajl, H.P Albarelli, Randall Amster, Angola 3 News, William Astore, David Bacon, Eleanor Bader, Dean Baker, Beverly Bell, Kyle Bella, Adam Bessie, Shahid Buttar, Cynthia Boaz, Marion Brady, Jeremy Brecher, Ellen Brown, Susie Cagle, Ira Chernus, Noam Chomsky, Jeff Cohen, Marjorie Cohn, Shamus Cooke, Michael Corcoran, Benjamin Dangl, Lawrence Davidson, Betsy de la Vega, Anthony DiMaggio, Peter Dreier, Barry Eisler, Max Eternity, Sam Ferguson, William Fisher, Harriet Fraad, Henry A. Giroux, Arun Gupta, Matt Harwood, Ryan Harvey, Tom H. Hastings, Patricia Hynes, David Johnson, Jeffrey Kaye, Kathy Kelly, Allison Kilkenny, David Krieger, George Lakoff, Victoria Law, Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Gregg Levine, Dick Meister, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Nick Mottern, Bill Moyers, Michael Nagler, Robert Naiman, Eric Newhouse, Greg Palast, Michael Parenti, John Pilger, Gareth Porter,Mark Provost, Bill Quigley, Jack Rasmus, Robert Reich, Richard Sale, Christine Shearer, Richard Silverstein, Mary Sojourner, Evaggelos Vallianatos, Danny Weil, Mark Weisbrot, Robert Wilbur, Kelpie Wilson, Lawrence S. Wittner, Michael Winship, Richard Wolff, Andy Worthington, Stephen Zunes and more.
Board of Directors
President: Robert Naiman
Member: Henry Giroux
Interim Acting Member: Maya Schenwar
Board of Advisers
Dean Baker, Cynthia Boaz, Rinaldo Brutoco, Maxon Buscher, Jaclyn Friedman, George Lakoff, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Dina Rasor, Robert Reich, Mikey Weinstein, Rick Wolff and Howard Zinn (deceased).
