Kai Wright
Kai Wright is a Peabody award-winning host, editor, and writer whose work explores the intersection of history, power, and the evolving American identity. He previously hosted WNYC’s Notes From America with Kai Wright, a live call-in show that aired on public radio stations around the country. Kai has also led several acclaimed limited-run podcasts for WNYC Studios, including Blindspot Season 3: The Plague in the Shadows, which documents the early years of the Aids epidemic in the US; Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice, honored with an Alfred I duPont-Columbia University award; and The United States of Anxiety, which chronicled the rise of the Maga movement and its impact on our political culture over four seasons of original reporting. Kai is the author of Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York, as well as two surveys of Black American history, and a contributor to the best-selling collection Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America.
Carter Sherman
Carter Sherman has been with the Guardian since 2023, leading the newsroom’s coverage of gender, power and politics in the US, with a focus on reproductive rights and justice. Previously a senior reporter for Vice News, Carter’s work both in front of and behind the camera has garnered several awards and nominations, including a National Press Club Journalism Award, a Scripps Howard award, and four Emmy nominations. Carter has written for publications such as Elle, Ms Magazine, and Los Angeles magazine, and has been interviewed by outlets such as the New York Times, NPR’s Fresh Air, and PBS NewsHour for her sharp commentary on everything from the unraveling of federal abortion protections to how politics is reshaping gender identity. Carter is the author of The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future, an incisive account of how a new generation is navigating battles over sex, identity, and control in post-Roe America. She is an alumna of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
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