Notes from America Creators & Guests

Kai Wright is an editor, host of WNYC's "The United States of Anxiety Podcast," and columnist for The Nation.

Anna Sale is the creator and host of Death, Sex & Money and the podcast from WNYC Studios about, the things we think about a lot & need to talk about more.

Jessica Miller is a radio and podcast producer. Currently, she is the producer for Slate Magazine's show "Thrilling Tales of Modern Capitalism."Miller started her career at NPR, where she worked for the show "Ask Me Another." From there, she moved to become a producer for the NPR station WNYC. In 2020, she became a podcast producer for Slate Magazine.Miller received her B.A. in Religion with a minor in English from Barnard College, where she worked for WBAR, the campus radio station.

Multimedia reporter and editor based in the U.S. and the Middle East. Skilled in news writing and editing, breaking news, video production, and narrative storytelling.

Olivia is an audio journalist, producer, and editor, currently working as a story editor on the Wondery series Scamfluencers and as a contributing reporter/producer for Slate’s Decoder Ring. Her freelance clients include iHeart Radio, Hello Sunshine, Slate Magazine, Arcana Audio, and Lola Media. Previously, she was a producer for Not Past It, a Spotify original podcast produced by ZSP Media and Gimlet Media, and also worked at Marc Smerling’s truth.media, where she reported and produced the hit series Crooked City in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment. She spent the first five years of her audio career at WNYC, where she was a producer for Fishko Files. Her work has appeared on Planet Money, On the Media, Studio 360, The New Yorker: Fiction, Notes from America, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered, and has been recognized multiple times by RTDNA’s Edward R. Murrow Awards, the New York Press Club, the Newswomen's Club of New York, the National Headliner Awards, and the Ambies.

Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Rashad Robinson is a civil rights leader. Currently, he is president of the nonprofit organization Color of Change.Prior to joining Color of Change, Robinson was a board member of RaceForward, Demos, State Voices, and the Hazen Foundation.Robinson became the president of Color Of Change in 2011. The organization's mission is to strengthen political and cultural power for Black communities in America. With CoC, he has expanded the organization's membership, organized a campaign to pull funding from the American Legislative Exchange Council, helped to protect the principle of net neutrality by pushing the FCC to reclassify broadband as a common carrier service, and pressured prosecutors to reduce the mass incarceration of black people, persuaded businesses like Mastercard and PayPal to stop accepting payments from white nationalist groups, and pressured business leaders to refrain from sitting on President Trump's Business Council.Prior to joining Color of Change, Robinson was Senior Director of Media Programs at GLAAD, where he led the organization's Right to Vote Campaign, and FairVote.Robinson has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and BET. He has a monthly column in US edition of The Guardian, and his work has appeared in New York Times, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and USA Today.

Elie Mystal is a Justice Correspondent at The Nation.

Anjali Kamat is an award-winning investigative journalist, filmmaker, and writer. She is an investigative reporter at WNYC / New York Public Radio. Her year-long investigation of the Trump Organization’s business dealings in India won a duPont-Columbia award and a Front Page award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York.

Jenny Casas is a reporter and audio producer. Currently, she is an Editor for The Center for Investigative Reporting's program "Reveal."Previously, Casas was a producer for the Opinion Desk at The New York Times. Before that, she was a reporter for WNYC's "The United States of Anxiety" and the WNYC newsroom. Before that, she reported on and produced season one of USA Today's narrative podcast "The City" in Chicago. She has been a reporter for City Bureau and St. Louis Public Radio. She got her start in radio as a KQED news intern.Casas received her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Modern Literary Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz.

Nikki Giovanni is a poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.

Reporter for Radiolab

Emily Bazelon is a journalist.

Paige Cowett is a producer of The Daily Podcast at The New York Times.

Joy Buolamwini is a Ghanaian-American computer scientist and digital activist based at the MIT Media Lab, she founded the Algorithmic Justice League, an organisation that looks to challenge bias in decision making software.

Ari Berman is a former senior contributing writer for The Nation magazine and a Fellow at The Nation Institute. His book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was published in August 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Daina Ramey Berry is the Oliver H. Radkey Professor of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Brian Lehrer is a radio talk show host on New York City's public radio station WNYC. His daily two-hour interview program is called The Brian Lehrer Show. He has been an anchor and reporter for NBC Radio Networks. He also hosts a weekly television show on CUNY TV.

Nancy Solomon is the managing editor of New Jersey Public Radio.