Our Team
Joe Conason
President
Dhanya Addanki
Executive 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
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.
Rebekah Sager
Reproductive Rights 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
Education 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.
Alyssa Burr
Michigan Reporter
Michigan native whose journalistic background includes working for The New York Times and MLive. She covers politics and other legislative issues in her home state.
Anna Gustafson
Pennsylvania Reporter
Olivia Herken
Wisconsin Reporter
Olivia Herken is a Wisconsin native and grew up in La Farge before getting her degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She previously covered K-12 education at the Wisconsin State Journal and politics and local government at the La Crosse Tribune.
Daniel Camacho
Senior Editor
Ethan Edward 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.
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.
Eli Skelly
Digital Manager
Digital strategist and designer, formerly non-profit educator and counselor.
Jesse Valentine
Newsletter Writer
Cat Warner
Operations Manager