Contributors
Mia Ashton
Mia Ashton is the lead on Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights’ child safeguarding campaign and has been published in The Critic, Gender Dissent, and Lesbian and Gay News.
Twitter: @_CryMiaRiver
Alex Gutentag
Alex Gutentag covers censorship, covid, and other issues. Before becoming a journalist, she worked in public schools for eight years, teaching Special Education in New York City and Oakland. She has written extensively about the social and economic impact of covid policies, the suppression of scientific debate, and the long-term consequences of school closures. In addition to reporting for Public, she is a columnist for Tablet magazine and a contributing editor for Compact magazine.
Alex is originally from Oakland and currently lives in the Bay Area.
Twitter: @galexybrane
Beige Luciano-Adams
Beige is a journalist based in Los Angeles, where she’s covered news, politics, arts, culture and social issues for a range of local, regional and national publications. She has been an arts critic for LA Weekly, a politics editor for MediaNews Group dailies, a communications director for the California State Assembly, a strategist for Organized Labor, and an investigator with a leading intelligence firm. She has also worked as a magazine editor in Cairo, Egypt, and as a performing artist throughout the U.S, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
She earned her B.A. in humanities from Sarah Lawrence College, and her M.A. in Human Rights, Social Justice and International Development (with distinction) from the Institute of Social Studies at The Hague, The Netherlands.
Twitter: @LucianoBeige
Maddie Rowley
Madeleine Rowley grew up in Northern Virginia but has lived all over the country and the world to include New York, Colorado, Florida, California, Maryland, and Jerusalem, Israel. She attended the College of William & Mary (Go Tribe!) before receiving her master’s degree in journalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. After graduating, she worked in advertising for several years and then landed a job as a journalist at a regional newspaper in Florida before moving overseas with her husband, who serves in the U.S. Army.
Madeleine freelanced for a time until her daughter was born in Jerusalem, and is now thrilled to be on the team at Public. She is passionate about Public’s mission and believes in unbiased journalism that is based on facts and the truth.
Her favorite part about being a journalist is interviewing people from all walks of life. She learns something new from every conversation she has and appreciates connecting with people on a personal level. Madeleine lives in Maryland with her husband and daughter and when she’s not working, she enjoys reading, creative writing, working out, and exploring the area with her family.
Feel free to contact Madeleine at maddie.b.rowley@gmail.com.
Phoebe Smith
Phoebe Smith is a 23-year-old journalist and researcher for Public and Environmental Progress. She began these roles after recently graduating with an MA in Media Studies from Syracuse University. As a student, she worked on a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant, extensively researching the capabilities and limitations of both AI generators and classifiers.
With a BS in Public Relations, Phoebe is passionate about investigating media technology policy and examining the threat certain digital tools can pose in emboldening a culture of censorship.
Leighton Woodhouse
Leighton Woodhouse is a journalist, an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Public. He has written for numerous publications, including The Intercept, The New Republic, The Nation, Vice News, The Free Press, UnHerd, Real Clear Investigations, Tablet, and The Spectator.
He has produced dozens of short documentary videos for The Intercept, The Washington Post, PBS Frontline and other outlets, and directed two feature documentary films, one of which was nominated for an Emmy Award.
Before turning to journalism, Leighton was a union organizer in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. He has a Masters Degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley. He currently lives in Oakland.
Twitter: @lwoodhouse