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  • Elliott Negin

    A former editor at NPR, American Journalism Review, Nuclear Times and Public CItizen magazine and contributor to HuffPost, Negin is the executive editor and cofounder of Money Trail on Substack.

  • Derrick Z. Jackson

    2021 Scripps Howard winner for Excellence in Opinion writing and 2021 winner in both Social Justice & Sports commentary from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. 2021 winner in Teen Nonfiction in the Ben Franklin Awards.

  • Rocky Kistner

    Independent journalist, board member Society of Environmental Journalists. Ex: CIR, ABC News, PBS Frontline, Marketplace public radio, NRDC OnEarth Contributor to HuffPost, Undark magazine, The Revelator.

  • Randy Rieland

    former journalist in DC

  • Dean Baker

    Senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, dog lover, and new resident of Astoria, Oregon.

  • Andrew Himes

    Andrew Himes, author of "The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family," with a memoir underway titled "Jesus, Mao, and Me" rejecting the trap of fundamentalist certainty, exploring the solution of compassionate listening.

  • Jonathan King

    Money Trail’s senior editor, was a Center for Investigative Reporting staff member, an ABC News field producer, a Seattle Weekly news editor, and a Pacific Northwest public radio reporter. The author of two books on the environment.

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