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Lenika Cruz is a senior editor at The Atlantic where she has been a staffer on the culture section since 2014. She has edited stories that have been nominated for James Beard Awards and included in anthologies such as Best Food Writing, and one that was named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist. In addition to The Atlantic, Lenika's essays, reporting, and criticism have appeared in L.A. Weekly, Glamour, The Rumpus, East Bay Express, and Guam's Pacific Daily News. She has spoken about race, culture, and media for the Asian American Journalists Association, the Washington National Cathedral, and Pomona College's Humanities Studio. She has appeared as a guest on NPR's Code Switch and Pop Culture Happy Hour, The Atlantic's Review podcast, Blank Check, KPCC, and other radio shows. She is a volunteer contributing editor for the street newspaper Street Sense. She graduated from UCLA in 2012 with a BA in English. Sophie Gilbert is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she writes about television, books, and popular culture. She was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Before joining The Atlantic in 2014, she was the arts editor at Washingtonian, where she won three Society of Professional Journalists awards for arts reporting and criticism. She has previously written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and the Brooklyn Rail. Megan Garber is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She writes about television, movies, books, and the intersection of politics and entertainment. The recipient of a Mirror Award for her writing about the media, she previously worked as a technology reporter for Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab and as a critic for the Columbia Journalism Review. She holds a BA in English Literature from Princeton University and an MA in journalism from Columbia University, and lives in Washington, DC. Jennifer Senior is a staff writer at The Atlantic and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer for Feature Writing for ""Twenty Years Gone."" Previously, she was a daily book critic and then columnist for The New York Times and a staff writer for New York Magazine. Her book All Joy and No Fun spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Senior has also won a GLAAD award, two Front Page awards, and the Erikson Prize in Mental Health Media. She lives in New York with her husband and son. Kaitlyn Tiffany is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She writes about online platforms and internet culture. Before joining The Atlantic in 2019, she was a technology reporter for Vox's The Goods, and a culture reporter at The Verge, where she co-hosted the podcast Why'd You Push That Button. She is the author of the book Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It. Lizzie Plaugic is a creative strategist and writer. Previously, she was a reporter at The Verge, where she wrote about internet culture. Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he publishes the newsletter ""Work in Progress"" on science, tech, and culture. He is the founder and host of the popular news podcast Plain English with Derek Thompson. A news analyst with NPR, Derek appears weekly on the national news show Here and Now and is also a contributor to CBS News. His first book, the national bestseller Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction, has been translated into more than a dozen languages and was named the 2018 Book of the Year by the American Marketing Association. Derek lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and dog.
