François R. Caron, webmaster, is the founder and principal consultant of Virtua Design, a web design boutique based in Ottawa, Canada. He is a graphic designer, web developer, and teacher. You can follow him on Twitter.

Anne Le Guern is an art editor. Born in France, she has a fine arts degree with a concentration in painting. She is an illustrator and ceramics artist and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two sons, and their dog, Marlo.

Raaza Jamshed, Guernica Global Spotlights co-editor, is a Doctor of Creative Arts candidate at Western Sydney University. She was a finalist for the Iowa Review Award for Fiction, 2021, and won second place for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, 2019. Her writing has appeared in Australian Book Review, Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, and elsewhere and her fiction has been supported by Tin House, Hedgebrook, and Banff Centre. You can find her on Twitter.

Syreeta McFadden, nonfiction editor, is a writer and professor of English at the City University of New York’s Borough of Manhattan Community College. Her work has been featured in the poetry anthology, BreakBeat Poets 2: Black Girl Magic from Haymarket Books, and the anthology Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings From The Me Too Movement from McSweeney’s Press. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed News and elsewhere. She is currently writing a book-length collection of reported essays about African Americans in the Middle West. She tweets here.

Jina Moore Ngarambe, editor in chief, worked for 15 years as a foreign correspondent, writing from more than 30 countries. She has written fo The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Atlantic, Lapham’s Quarterly, Boston Review, and NPR programs, and in Best American Travel Writing and Best American Science Writing. She is on the editorial board of Adi Magazine, the advisory board of Off/Assignment. She, too, is on Twitter, alas.

Alexandra Valahu, Guernica Global Spotlights co-editor, is a writer and radio producer. She is also the host of a forthcoming podcast about translation. You can find her on Twitter.

EDITORS AT LARGE

Salar Abdoh’s latest novel, Out of Mesopotamia, about the ISIS war in Syria and Iraq, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and named a Best Book of 2020 by Publishers Weekly. He lives and works between Tehran and New York.

Michael Archer is chief editorial advisor and founding editor of Guernica.

Hillary Brenhouse is a Montreal-born editor and writer focused on women’s issues and religion. Previously, she was Guernica’s managing and special issues editor, and before that a reporter based out of TIME magazine’s Hong Kong bureau. She has pursued stories in over fifteen countries, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker online, TIME, the Daily Beast, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Oxford American, Slate, and on PRI’s “The World,” among others. You can find her on Twitter.

BOARD

Michael Archer is chief editorial advisor and founding editor of Guernica.

Magogodi oa Mphela Makhene is a writer and social entrepreneur. She leads Love As A Kind of Cure, a social enterprise that dismantles white supremacy through immersive learning. Since their 2020 birthday bash for Toni Morrison at the Brooklyn Museum, @lovekindcure has galvanized women like Arundhati Roy, Nikki Giovanni, Krista Tippett and Joy Harjo for this work. Their signature program is a 6 week antiracism course for women ready to uproot racism, from the inside out; alums describe it as a “game changer.” Magogodi’s been published by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel and is a proudly Soweto made soul.

Katherine Rowland, a board member, is the former publisher of Guernica. A nonprofit strategist with a background in public health and journalism, her essays and reporting have appeared in Nature, the Financial TimesOnEarth, Aeon, Psychology Today and Guernica, among other outlets. Her book, The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution was published by Seal Press in 2020.