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Lisa Rein covers federal agencies and the management of government in the Biden administration at The Washington Post.聽 Before joining The Post in 1991 she was a reporter for the New York Daily News where she covered former mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and had started her daily newspaper career at the Patriot-Ledger in Quincy, Mass., where one of the biggest scandals of the late 1980s was the gold spray-painting by vandals of Plymouth Rock. She grew up in Boston and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.聽

Kate Wagner is the creator of the viral blog McMansionHell, which roasts the world鈥檚 ugliest houses from top to bottom, all while teaching about architecture and design. Since its launch in July 2016, the blog has been featured in a wide range of publications, including The聽Huffington Post, Slate, Business Insider聽and聽Paper Magazine.聽Outside of McMansion Hell, Kate has written for聽Curbed,听99 Percent Invisible,听The Atlantic,听Architectural Digest聽and more. She recently graduated from Johns Hopkins with a Master of Arts in Audio Science, specializing in architectural acoustics. Her thesis project examined intersections of acoustics, urbanism and Late Modern architecture.聽

Alice E. Marwick is an Associate Professor of Communication and Principal Researcher at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life, which she co-founded, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is also a 2020-2021 Carnegie Fellow and Faculty Advisor to the Media Manipulation Initiative at the Data & Society Research Institute. She studies the social and cultural implications of social media technologies, and is best known for her work on media manipulation and disinformation online; micro-celebrity; online privacy; and context collapse. Her first book, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age (Yale 2013), looked at how Silicon Valley folks used early Twitter for self-promotion in the mid-2000s. She is also the author of numerous academic papers and popular articles on social media and co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Social Media (Sage, 2017). She lives in Chapel Hill, NC and likes pop culture, feminist science fiction and high femme fashion.

Cecilia D'Anastasio is an award winning writer covering the games industry and gaming culture for Bloomberg. She was previously staff writer at WIRED, senior reporter at Kotaku, G/O Media's video game vertical.聽