Nation Voices


  • Sarah Leonard

    Sarah Leonard is a contributing editor to The Nation and an editor-at-large at Dissent.
    Contributing Editor

  • Dani McClain

    Dani McClain is a contributing writer for The Nation and author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood. She has written for Talking Points Memo, Al Jazeera America, Colorlines, EBONY.com and Guernica, among other media outlets. McClain reported on education while on staff at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and has also worked as a strategist and communications staffer wit...

  • Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is the author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen (Columbia Global Reports, 2015).

  • Julianne Hing

    Julianne Hing is a contributing writer at The Nation, where she covers immigration and the politics of the changing demography of the United States. She previously covered immigration, education and police accountability for Colorlines.

  • Annie Shields

    Annie Shields is the engagement editor at The Nation.
    Engagement Editor

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  • Mychal Denzel Smith

    Mychal Denzel Smith is the New York Times-bestselling author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching and a 2017 NAACP Image Award nominee.

  • Zoë Carpenter

    Zoë Carpenter is a contributing writer for The Nation. She received the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in 2018, and has been a finalist for the Livingston Awards and the National Awards for Education Reporting. Her writing has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Guernica, and various other publications. Follow her on Twitter @ZoeSCarpenter.

  • Michelle Chen

    Michelle Chen is a contributing writer for The Nation. She is also a contributing editor at Dissent magazine, a contributing writer at In These Times, and a co-producer of Asia Pacific Forum podcast and Dissent’s Belabored podcast. She studied history at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
    Contributing Writer

  • Francis Reynolds

    Francis Reynolds is The Nation’s multimedia editor.
    Multimedia Editor

  • George Zornick

    George grew up in Buffalo, NY and holds a B.A. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Prior to joining The Nation, George was Senior Reporter/Blogger for ThinkProgress.org. He worked as a researcher for Michael Moore's SiCKO and as an Associate Producer on "The Media Project" on the Independent Film Channel. His work has been published in The Los Angeles Times, Media Matte...
    Washington Editor