Roger Sollenberger is a senior political reporter with The Daily Beast. He previously worked as a reporter for Salon, and prior to that as an independent investigative journalist, where he placed stories with BuzzFeed News, WIRED, the New Republic, and VICE, among others. He and his wife live in Austin,...

AJ McDougall is a breaking news reporter for The Daily Beast. Before graduating from Columbia University in 2022, she wrote for Vice and E! News, and previously interned at the Beast, Vogue Singapore, and Backstage.

Matt Simon is a senior staff writer covering biology, robotics, and the environment. He’s the author, most recently, of A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.

Jeremiah is a cyber security researcher, technologist, and journalist who has discovered thousands of data breaches and vulnerabilities. With more than 10 years as a cyber security researcher Jeremiah has identified and reported some of the biggest data breaches and vulnerabilities to help secure the personal data of millions of...

Madaleine Rubin is a reporting fellow and a senior at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Madaleine previously interned at Northwestern Magazine and the Medill Investigative Lab. Her work has appeared in The Palm Beach Post, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and ProPublica. Born and raised in Boca Raton, Florida, she will graduate...

Wayne Unger is an Assistant Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law where he teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, First Amendment, and Data Privacy & Security Law. He has also taught at Gonzaga University School of Law and Arizona State University's College of Law. As a legal scholar,...

Daniel Grossman has been a science journalist for 30 years. He has produced radio features and documentaries for U.S. public radio, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Deutsche Welle radio, the BBC, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Guardian,...

William Vaillancourt has written for The Progressive, The Independent and Washington Monthly, among other places.

Shannon Vavra is a national security reporter for The Daily Beast covering the politics of war, national security, hacking, disinformation, and espionage. She previously worked at Axios and CyberScoop, where she covered the NSA, Cyber Command, and cyber-espionage. She received her bachelor’s degree from Tufts University in international relations with...

Jordan Smith is a state and national award-winning investigative journalist based in Austin, Texas. She has covered criminal justice for more than 20 years and, during that time, has developed a reputation as a resourceful and dogged reporter with a talent for analyzing complex social and legal issues. She is...