Welcome new members of the Feministing crew!

Readers may have noticed some new bylines on the blog over the last few months. We are very excited to announce that Mahroh Jahangiri, Katie Barnes, and Dana Bolger are joining us as regular columnists.

Screen Shot 2015-03-20 at 1.32.58 PMMahroh Jahangiri is a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she critically examines U.S. foreign policy. Mahroh’s previous research on immigration detention in Washington, DC and work in Cairo, Egypt has focused on the ways in which American militarization, racism, and sexual violence impact non-white communities transnationally. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, she lives and organizes in DC.

Screen Shot 2015-03-20 at 1.33.27 PMKatie Barnes is a writer, activist, and contributor to Outsports. They have been active in LGBTQ+ organizing since college, and continue that work through serving as the Network Director for GO! Athletes, the President of the Campus Pride Advisory Board, and collaborating on special projects with various members and organizations of the LGBT Sports Coalition. Katie is currently finishing their M.S. in Student Affairs in Higher Education.

Screen Shot 2015-03-20 at 1.33.14 PMDana Bolger is a columnist at Feministing.com and co-founder of Know Your IX, a national survivor-led, student-driven campaign to end campus gender-based violence. She began organizing against sexual violence while a student at Amherst, where she co-founded It Happens Here, a publication dedicated to creating spaces for survivors to share their stories for cultural and institutional change on campus. Since then, she’s testified before Congress on Title IX policy and legislative reform and her writing has appeared in a number of outlets, including The New York Times and The Nation.

Please join us in welcoming Mahroh, Katie, and Dana to the crew!

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Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com. During her four years at the site, she wrote about gender violence, reproductive justice, and education equity and ran the site's book review column. She is now a Skadden Fellow at the National Women's Law Center and also serves as the Board Chair of Know Your IX, a national student-led movement to end gender violence, which she co-founded and previously co-directed. Alexandra has written for publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the Nation, and she is the co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project: 57 Visions of a Wildly Better Future. She has spoken about violence against women and reproductive justice at campuses across the country and on MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, ESPN, and NPR.

Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com.

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