Staff and Board

Lara Witt, Editor-in-Chief

Lara is an award-winning writer, journalist, editor, and the co-founder of the Movement Media Alliance and Media Against Apartheid & Displacement. Their goal is to provide platforms for marginalized voices and to reshape the media landscape altogether as a tool for liberation. | femmfeministe.bsky.social

Caitlin Gaffin, Publisher

Caitlin is a nonprofit strategy and operations leader working to reimagine how organizations build power and practice care. She is the founding co-director of Holler Health Justice, a reproductive and gender justice nonprofit and abortion fund in Appalachia.

Alexandra Martinez, Senior News Reporter

Alexandra is an award-winning, Cuban-American writer whose reporting spans such topics as immigration, the affordable housing crisis, and art-washing, and appears in VICE, Observer, Catapult magazine, CNN, and others. She has a B.A in Film Studies from Columbia University and has worked on documentary post-production teams and prison reentry programs in New York and Miami. | @alex__mar

Carolyn Copeland, Managing Editor

Carolyn is a Bay Area-based editor experienced in print and broadcast media. Her writing has been published by The Washington Post, SF Chronicle, HuffPost, Popsugar, SF Examiner, and others. She also has appeared as a guest commentator on CNN, PBS, KRON4, and various radio shows and podcasts. | @carolyncopes.bsky.social

Kyubin Kim, Audience Editor

Kyubin is a writer, researcher, and social media editor who believes in using new media forms to serve radical public pedagogy. She has previously worked at Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Republic.

Rashmee Kumar, Senior Copy Editor

Rashmee previously led editorial operations, oversaw the copy desk, and edited stories at The Intercept. She has also worked at Guardian US, NJ Advance Media, and The Star-Ledger. She attended Rutgers University and is based in New York.

Rikki Li, Creative Director

Rikki is a writer and editor whose works revolve around themes of cultural identity, queerness, and racial justice. She has an M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University, and her goal is to help build the next generation of BIPOC movement journalists. | @writtenbyrikki

Saba Keramati, Operations Director

Saba Keramati is a nonprofit professional and poet. She is the author of Self-Mythology (University of Arkansas Press, 2024) and the poetry editor for Sundog Lit. She believes in the power of storytelling to shift dominant narratives and create change. | @sabzi_k

Sahar Fatima, News Editor

Sahar is a purpose-driven journalist experienced in news, features, and digital best practices. She was previously the criminal justice editor and metro digital editor at The Boston Globe, helping cover a diverse range of stories in creative and impactful ways. She has worked as a reporter and a digital producer at Toronto Star and written for The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press. | @sfatima.bsky.social

Shabnam Banerjee-McFarland, Audience Director

Throughout her career, Shabnam has worked in independent media committed to liberation. She believes in the power of connecting readers and writers in the service of movement building, leveraging multimedia tools to build coalitions that are core to audience development.

Tina Vásquez, Features Editor

Tina is an award-winning journalist and current Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow investigating the H-2A program. Tina covers immigration, reproductive injustice, and labor. | @tinavasquez.bsky.social

Derek R. Trumbo, Sr., Columnist: One Bite at a Time

William C. Anderson, Columnist: Another Way Out

Ashton Lattimore, Board Chair

Author; previously Editor-in-Chief, Prism

Hanif Abdurraqib, Board Member

Poet and Author

Laura Albast, Board Member

Journalist and Media Analyst

William C. Anderson, Board Member

Writer and Activist

Sarah Eagle Heart, Board Member

Co-Founder and CEO, Return to the Heart Foundation

Kamardip Singh, Board Member

Program Officer, RISE Together Fund at Proteus Fund