Jessica McCreight

President

Jessica is a political communications and media expert with over 15 years of experience. She served in the Obama Administration and has worked for progressive campaigns, causes, and candidates all over the country. Most recently she worked for Courier Newsroom, a network of local online news outlets.

Dhanya Addanki

Managing Editor

Dhanya Addanki is an editor, journalist and oral historian. Her previous editorial work focused on human rights and religion journalism. Dhanya is the managing editor at The American Independent.

Emma Roller

Deputy Managing Editor

Emma Roller is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, HuffPost, Jezebel, Teen Vogue, Slate and In These Times, among other places. She lives in Milwaukee, the frozen custard capital of the world.

Oliver Willis

Senior Reporter

Former research fellow at Media Matters for America who has been blogging about politics since 2001.

Emily Singer

Senior Reporter

Emily C. Singer is a political reporter based in New York. She’s covered campaigns and elections for years, including at Roll Call, Mashable and Mic.

Josh Israel

Senior Reporter

Former senior investigative reporter at ThinkProgress and former head of money-in-politics reporting at the Center for Public Integrity.

Matt Cohen

Senior Reporter

Matt is a reporter covering extremism and politics. He was previously a former Ben Bagdikian investigative reporting fellow at Mother Jones and the former arts editor at Washington City Paper and editor-in-chief of DCist.

Nick Vachon

Political Beat Reporter

Reporter covering state and local politics. Bylines in In These Times.

Rebekah Sager

Reproductive Rights Beat Reporter

Rebekah Sager is an award-winning journalist with work published in The Washington Post, The Hollywood Reporter, Playboy, VICE, Cosmopolitan, The Los Angeles Times, AARP, and more. In September 2022, Sager was awarded the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship in Mental Health Journalism.

Will Fritz

LGBTQ+ Beat Reporter

Will Fritz is a journalist based in New York City. He previously covered politics and government, crime and courts, education, cannabis and a lot more for publications in Southern California and New York.

Karen Freund

Copy Chief

Former copy editor at Daily Kos. Russian translator, lifelong progressive and feminist.

Ethan Coston

Associate Editor

Ethan is a journalist based out of San Diego, CA. He previously covered politics and disinformation for Spotlight PA and higher education as a fellow at CalMatters. He graduated from UC San Diego in 2020.

Juwan Holmes

Associate Editor

Juwan is a Brooklyn-born multipotentialite currently residing in Washington, D.C. He is also a contributor to Mediaite.com and has previously edited or written at INTOmore.com, LGBTQ Nation, the Last Word on Sports Network, and Genius.com.

Jessie Standafer

Digital Director

Digital strategist and content producer. Formerly Cabán for Queens and Maine Democratic Party. Creator of #PeoplePowered, used by progressive campaigns nationwide.

Ellison Skelly

Digital Manager

Digital strategist and designer, formerly non-profit educator and counselor.

Jesse Valentine

Email Strategist

Alice Visocchi

Director of Outreach and Paid Programs

Former campaign manager. Former researcher.

Colleen Wachenfeld

Deputy Outreach Director

Former researcher and organizer with campaign experience across the country.

Cat Warner

Operations Manager

Nurettin Aydogan

IT Manager

IT Manager with more than 15 years of experience in Software Development and IT Management.