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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 and Reporter: Dina Rasor
Assistant Editors: Alissa Bohling, Yana Kunichoff, Britney Schultz
Copy Editor: Jan Hollingsworth
Reporter: Mike Ludwig
Fellow: Tolu Olorunda, Martha Sorren

Production and Tech Team

Digital Liaison/Designer/Photo Editor: Jared Rodriguez
Videographer/Designer/Photo Editor: Lance Page
Community Liaison: Joseph Peterson
Social Media Fellow: Candice Bernd

Development Team

Director of Donor Development and Outreach: Joe Macaré
Administrative Manager: Annie Stoddard
Financial Administrator: Kendel Gordon
Development Fellow: Zach Swim

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, Sam Knight, 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
Members: Henry Giroux, Lewis Gordon
Interim Acting Member: Maya Schenwar

Board of Advisers

Valerie Anderson, Dean Baker, Beverly Bell, Scott Blau, Cynthia Boaz, Alan Breslauer, Rinaldo Brutoco, Maxon Buscher, Marjorie Cohn, Henry Crapo, Jodie Evans, Jaclyn Friedman, George Lakoff, Bryan Lockwood, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Richard Power, Robert Reich, Roberto Rodriguez, Mark Ruffalo, Graham and Mariesa Ryan, T.M. Scruggs, Mikey Weinstein and Richard D. Wolff.