Our Staff

Sophie Hayssen is an editorial fellow at Mother Jones. Her work has appeared in in Teen Vogue, Input Magazine, the New Republic, and Bitch Media. You can find more of her work at SophieHayssen.com.

Katie Herchenroeder is a Ben Bagdikian editorial fellow and a Brooklyn-based reporter. Katie got her master’s in international reporting at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She’s interned at MSNBC and Vice and freelanced at the New York Daily News. Katie was most recently at the New Republic as a reporter-researcher. Tip her at kherchenroeder@motherjones.com or @Katie_Jea on Twitter. Katie focuses on gender, inequity, and diaspora.

Brian Hiatt is the marketing and membership director, based out of the San Francisco office. He leads Mother Jones’ efforts to earn the support—donations and magazine subscriptions—of online readers. Brian served a brief stint as a fisheries biologist after college before deciding he wanted to swim upstream alongside people, not salmonids. He became an organizer when he saw the internet’s rise lead to new ways nonprofits could engage their supporters (even before Facebook and Twitter!), and he consulted on digital strategy with leading nonprofits for nearly a decade before joining MoJo.

Marla Jones-Newman, vice president of people and culture, joined Mother Jones in January 2022 and brings a wealth of experience in shaping high-performing cultures, implementing robust professional development programs, and employing best human capital practices to attract and retain talent. Marla is committed to supporting, growing, and advocating for our vital workforce. She is an alumnus of the Maynard 200 Executive Leaders track. Marla can be reached at mjones-newman@motherjones.com.

Young Kim is Mother Jones’ internal systems developer. Young’s manifold Mother Jones responsibilities include translating print content and special projects to the web. His hobbies include 3-D artwork and bad poetry.

Hannah Levintova is the special projects editor at Mother Jones. She reports on business, corporate accountability, debt, and financial inequality, and also leads the newsroom in building collaborative packages and investigations on these topics. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, where she was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business Journalism. Previously, she was a reporter in Mother Jones’ Washington, DC bureau covering politics and financial policy, and before that worked on the news desk at NPR, at the Washington Monthly, and for a stint as a FOIA officer at a federal agency. You can reach her at hlevintova@motherjones.com and follow her on Twitter @H_Lev.

Nina Liss-Schultz is Mother Jones’ senior managing editor. She edits and reports on reproductive health, gender, and sexuality issues from San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Think Progress, Bitch magazine, and elsewhere. You can reach her on Twitter @NinaLisss or by email at nliss-schultz@motherjones.com.

Julia Lurie is a senior reporter at Mother Jones who typically covers public health and the environment. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Newsweek, among others. You can reach her at jlurie@motherjones.com.

Michael Mechanic is a senior editor at Mother Jones and author of Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All (April 2021, Simon & Schuster). Prior to MoJo, he was longtime managing editor for the weekly East Bay Express and a reporter and editor for other alt-weeklies and magazines, including the late Industry Standard. His writing has also appeared in the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and Wired. He lives in Oakland with his wife and kids, a cat, a hedgehog, and too many musical instruments to master.

Chére Menard works in the San Francisco office as Mother Jones’ financial analyst. She earned a psychology degree from California State University, Stanislaus, and has had varied work experience from metal fabrication to food safety. She is an animal lover and an enthusiast of the outdoors, and she enjoys travel, food, and all forms of art, music, and culture.

Julia Métraux (she/her) is a Ben Bagdikian Fellow and recent graduate of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She is passionate about reporting on the lived experiences of disabled people and others who live with chronic health conditions, including some solutions to inequities. You can follow her on Twitter at @metraux_julia and send her emails at jmetraux@motherjones.com.

Samantha Michaels is a senior reporter at Mother Jones who writes about the criminal justice system. Before coming to San Francisco, she worked as a journalist in Burma and Indonesia. Her writing has been published by the Atlantic, Global Post, and Outside, among others. Got a tip? Reach her at smichaels@motherjones.com, and follow her on Twitter @sjmichaels.

Daniel Moattar edits and writes for Mother Jones on money, work, justice, policing, and movement politics. He used to be MoJo’s research editor, managing its fellowships and heading research teams. He has reported for the Guardian, the American Prospect, Vice, and other outlets, and published reviews and essays in Guernica, the Baffler, and the Nation. Contact him at dmoattar@motherjones.com or on Twitter.

Jackie Flynn Mogensen is a reporter at Mother Jones’ New York City office. Before coming to Mother Jones, she earned a master’s degree in environmental communication from Stanford University and interned at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she focused on cannabis-related reporting and social media. You can reach Jackie at jmogensen@motherjones.com and follow her on Twitter @jackiefmogensen.

Mark Murrmann is Mother Jones’ photo director. Mark came to Mother Jones in 2007 with a background as a freelance editorial and documentary photographer. He studied photography at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and then in London as a student winner of the Alexia Foundation Photography Grant.

Inae Oh is the senior news and engagement editor at Mother Jones, where she focuses on breaking news, political blogging, and social media coverage. Prior to Mother Jones, she was the New York editor at Huffington Post. You can reach her at ioh@motherjones.com.

Michelle Reyes is the controller at Mother Jones and is based in San Francisco. Prior to guiding the accounting team, she worked at the for-profit tech media corporation International Data Group. As an almost native San Franciscan, Michelle enjoys exploring the wide variety of activities offered in the Bay Area, including hiking, listening to music, finding good eats, and planning bigger trips. You can reach her at mreyes@motherjones.com.

Daniel Schulman is Mother Jones’ deputy Washington, DC, bureau chief. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita (Grand Central Publishing), a biography of the Koch brothers. His new book, to be published by Knopf, chronicles the lives and legacies of a group of turn-of-the-century Wall Street titans who influenced the course of history and the rise of modern finance. Reach him at dschulman@motherjones.com or follow him on Twitter @danielschulman.

Dru Sefton is the office manager for all Mother Jones’ bureaus, based in San Francisco. She has a long reporting career in daily newsrooms, including the Kansas City Star, where she scored the first interview with President Clinton’s personal secretary Betty Currie, and USA Today, where she uncovered nationwide thefts of Baby Jesus statues from nativity scenes. Most recently she reported on public TV for Current, the national trade publication for public broadcasting.

Marianne Szegedy-Maszak is the Washington editorial operations director in the Washington, DC, bureau of Mother Jones. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, the Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, and Newsweek, among others. Formerly, she was a senior writer covering science and health at US News and World Report, a reporter for the New York Post, and an editor at Congressional Quarterly. She was also a professor of journalism at American University. She is on the board of the Center for Public Integrity and is the author of I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary. Reach her at mszegedy@motherjones.com.