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Contributors
Jamie Lauren Keiles (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Page 31) is a contributing writer for the magazine.
They last wrote about the musical ‘‘Cats.’’Jaime Lowe (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’ Page 30)
is a frequent contributor to the magazine and
the author of ‘‘Mental: Lithium, Love and Losing
My Mind’’ and a forthcoming book on female
inmate firefighters.Jessica Lustig (‘‘What I Learned When My Husband
Got Sick With Coronavirus,’’ Page 54) is a deputy
editor for the magazine.Kevin Pang (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’ Page 43)
is a writer and filmmaker based in Chicago and
a founding editor of the food site The Takeout.Jody Rosen (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’ Page 31)
is a contributing writer for the magazine and the
author of ‘‘Two Wheels Good: The Bicycle
on Planet Earth and Elsewhere,’’ to be published
in 2021.Mattathias Schwartz (Screenland, Page 9)
is a contributing writer for the magazine. He lives
in Washington.Kim Tingley (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’ Page 39)
is a contributing writer for the magazine and the
Studies Show columnist.Sarah A. Topol (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Page 35) is a writer at large for the magazine. She
last wrote about a Uighur family and the Chinese
crackdown in Xinjiang.Marcela Valdes (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Page 35) is a contributing writer for the magazine.
She last wrote about the musician Rosalía.Linda Villarosa (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Page 32) is a contributing writer for the magazine.
She directs the journalism program at the City
College of New York in Harlem.Carvell Wallace (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Page 40) is a contributing writer for the magazine
and a podcaster based in Oakland, Calif.Malia Wollan (Tip and ‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Pages 23 and 37) writes the Tip column for
the magazine. She lives in Oakland, Calif.Elisabeth Zerofsky (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
and ‘‘ ‘I Always Write With a Sense of Shame,’ ’’ Pages 40
and 48) is a writer living in Berlin. She previously
wrote for the magazine about the French far right
and the politics of the Paris banlieues.Vauhini Vara (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’ Page 34)
is a contributing editor for the Fuller Project for
International Reporting and the author of the novel
‘‘The Immortal King Rao,’’ to be published by W. W.
Norton in 2021. Her articles have appeared in The
Atlantic, Harper’s, Businessweek and elsewhere.
This is her first for the magazine. Vara grew up in
the suburbs of Seattle, not far from the Kirkland
funeral home whose founder she interviewed for
this issue. ‘‘We hear so much about the nurses and
doctors on the front line of the coronavirus crisis,
but it doesn’t occur to us — at least it didn’t occur
to me — to think of funeral workers as belonging to
that core group of people whose jobs are essential,’’
she says. “But of course they do, and their job is only
going to get more essential as this goes on.’’
Christopher Anderson (‘‘ ‘I Always Write With a
Sense of Shame,’ ’’ Page 48) is the author of five photo
books, including ‘‘COP.’’ He lives in Paris.
Emily Bazelon (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Page 38) is a staff writer for the magazine and the
author of ‘‘Charged: The New Movement
to Transform American Prosecution and End
Mass Incarceration.’’
C. J. Chivers (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’ Page 42)
is a staff writer for the magazine and a former
foreign correspondent for The Times.
Matthew Desmond (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Page 33) is a contributing writer for the
magazine and a professor of sociology at
Princeton University.
McKenzie Funk (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Page 41) is an author working on a book about the
history of data for St. Martin’s Press.
Gary Greenberg (‘‘Decoding Cannabis,’’ Page 44) is
the author, most recently, of ‘‘The Book of Woe:
The D.S.M. and the Unmaking of Psychiatry’’ and
a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine.
Lovia Gyarkye (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Page 29) is an associate editor for NYT Mag Labs.
Nikole Hannah-Jones (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Page 39) is a staff writer for the magazine. She
spearheaded The 1619 Project, which examines the
modern legacy of slavery in the United States.
John Ismay (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’ Page 36)
is the At War reporter for the magazine.
Maggie Jones (‘‘Exposed. Afraid. Determined.’’
Page 28) is a contributing writer for the magazine.
She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
Editor in Chief JAKE SILVERSTEIN
Deputy Editors JESSICA LUSTIG,
BILL WASIK
Managing Editor ERIKA SOMMER
Design Director GAIL BICHLER
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Features Editor ILENA SILVERMAN
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Culture Editor SASHA WEISS
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Story Editors NITSUH ABEBE,
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CLAIRE GUTIERREZ,
JAZMINE HUGHES,
LUKE MITCHELL,
DEAN ROBINSON,
WILLY STALEY
At War Editor LAUREN KATZENBERG
Assistant Managing Editor JEANNIE CHOI
Associate Editors IVA DIXIT,
KYLE LIGMAN
Poetry Editor NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
Staff Writers SAM ANDERSON,
EMILY BAZELON,
RONEN BERGMAN,
TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER,
C. J. CHIVERS,
PAMELA COLLOFF,
NICHOLAS CONFESSORE,
SUSAN DOMINUS,
MAUREEN DOWD,
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES,
JENEEN INTERLANDI,
MARK LEIBOVICH,
JONATHAN MAHLER,
DAVID MARCHESE,
WESLEY MORRIS,
JENNA WORTHAM
At War Reporter JOHN ISMAY
New York Times Fellow JAKE NEVINS
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CYNTHIA COTTS,
JAMIE FISHER,
LU FONG,
TIM HODLER,
ROBERT LIGUORI,
LIA MILLER,
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BILL VOURVOULIAS
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