Another Round Creators & Guests

Tracy Clayton is a Buzzfeed writer "who gained national visibility as one of the hosts of Buzzfeed's hit podcast "Another Round,".

Heben Nigatu is a writer and the co-hosts of Buzzfeed podcast Another Round. Previously she wrote for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an American investigative journalist known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States.

Eric co-hosts The Nod at Gimlet. He also co-hosted For Colored Nerds, an independent podcast about race, news and pop culture with Brittany Luse. Before Gimlet, he helped nonprofits and foundations develop digital strategies at Fenton.He grew up in Memphis, TN and went to school at Howard University where he met long time friend Brittany Luse.

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd is a freelance writer, editor, and critic who writes about music, politics, pop culture, fashion, art, dance, film, feminism, and Latina issues. She is a co-founder of Hearing Things, an independent music and culture news outlet.Shepherd has held staff positions at VIBE, MTV, the Portland Mercury and, most recently, was Executive Editor of the FADER, which she left in 2010 to freelance full-time.Shepherd is is a contributing writer at Pitchfork, and has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, Vogue, and many other publications. Her first book, "Vaquera," was published in 2025.

Nichole Perkins is a writer and co-host of the Thirst Aid Kit Podcast.

Uzo Aduba is an actress.

Gene Demby is a journalist who specializes in race in America. He is currently the lead blogger for NPR's Code Switch team.Before coming to NPR, he was the managing editor for Huffington Post's BlackVoices. He later covered politics. Prior to that, he reported for the New York Times.While working for the Times in 2007, Demby started a blog about race, culture, politics, and media called PostBourgie, which won the 2009 Black Weblog Award for Best News/Politics Site.Demby attended Hofstra University.

Dr. Adrienne Keene is an American and Native American academic, writer, and activist. A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, she is the founder of Native Appropriations, a blog on contemporary Indigenous issues analyzing the way that indigenous peoples are represented in popular culture, covering issues of cultural appropriation in fashion and music and stereotyping in film and other media.

Vann Newkirk is a journalist, editor, content creator, policy analyst, researcher, and staff writer for The Atlantic.

Brittany Luse is a producer and co-hosts the Gimlet podcast 'The Nod' and also co-hosts 'For Colored Nerds', an independent podcast about race, news and pop culture. She hails from Farmington Hills, Michigan and is a very proud graduate of Howard University.Britanny has well-documented love-hate relationships with Kanye West, Washington, DC and most technology, but she has never met a Twilight Zone episode or Beyoncé performance she didn’t like.

Evan McMorris-Santoro is a political journalist. Currently, he is a reporter for the Allbritton Journalism Institute.Previously, McMorris-Santoro was Enterprise correspondent at CNN. Before that, he was a correspondent on "Vice News Tonight" on HBO, a White House Reporter for BuzzFeed, a National Political Reporter for TPM Media, and staff writer of "The Hotline" for the National Journal.

Aisha Harris is a writer and editor in the Opinion section of the New York Times, where she covers culture and society.Previously, Harris was an assistant television editor on the Culture Desk at The New York Times, and prior to that, she was a culture writer and editor for Slate Magazine and host of the film and TV podcast "Represent."Harris received her B.A. in theater from Northwestern University and her M.A. in cinema studies from New York University.

Daniel Baker ( aka Desus Nice) is a comedian, TV personality, and YouTuber.

Crissle West is a writer and comedian. She is a co-host of the podcast The Read.

Producer at This American Life; Playwright