Our Team
Joe Conason
President
Dhanya Addanki
Executive Editor
Dhanya Addanki is an editor, journalist and oral historian. Her previous editorial work focused on human rights and religion journalism.
Josh Israel
Senior Reporter
Former senior investigative reporter at ThinkProgress and former head of money-in-politics reporting at the Center for Public Integrity.
Rebekah Sager
Reproductive Rights Reporter
Rebekah Sager is an award-winning journalist with bylines in The Washington Post, HuffPo, The Nation, and more. Fountain was awarded the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship in Mental Health Journalism in 2022 and is a proud member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Alyssa Burr
Michigan Reporter
Michigan native whose journalistic background includes working for The New York Times and MLive. She covers politics and other legislative issues in her home state.
Ethan Edward Coston
Associate Editor
Ethan (he/they) is an award-winning journalist based out of Washington, DC. They previously covered democracy and extremism for Spotlight PA and completed a fellowship with CalMatters. Originally from San Diego, he graduated from UCSD in 2020.
Jesse Valentine
Newsletter Writer
Alice Visocchi
Outreach Director
Former campaign manager. Former researcher.
Cat Warner
Operations Manager
Jonah Beleckis
Jonah Beleckis spent nearly a decade reporting with Wisconsin Public Radio and the Janesville Gazette newspaper after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.