Hellbent Creators & Guests

Jessica Mason Pieklo is the Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Rewire News Group. She is also the co-host of the Rewire News Group podcast Boom! Lawyered.Jessica has over a decade of experience as a former litigator, and taught law for four years before transitioning to journalism. She was part of the SCOTUSblog symposium on abortion rights following Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt and won the Excellence in Online Journalism award in 2018 from the Association of LGBTQ Journalists. She has participated in numerous panels including at NYU Law School; University of Arkansas; University of Colorado; University of Utah, among others. Boom! Lawyered won Podcast of the Year in 2017 from the Population Institute.

Katelyn Burns is a reporter and writer. Currently, she writes for Vox and is the first ever openly trans Capitol Hill reporter. She covers politics, LGBTQ issues, and reproductive health policy.Previously, Burns was the federal policy reporter for Rewire.News, where she covered the U.S. Congress including legislation and federal policy issues. She continues to work as a freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in them.us. The Washington Post, VICE, The Establishment, and Allure. She also wrote a series on toxic call-out culture in online activism for Everyday Feminism.

Felicia Day is an actress, writer, and web series creator.

Wil Wheaton is an actor, blogger, and writer.

Carlos Maza is an American video producer who writes, produces, and hosts the Vox series "Strikethrough".

Ian Millhiser is a journalist and researcher who specializes in the United States Supreme Court. He is currently the SCOTUS correspondent for Vox.Prior to writing for Vox, Millhiser was a columnist at ThinkProgress and editor of ThinkProgress Justice. He was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, the American Prospect, and the Yale Law & Policy Review.Millhiser received his JD from Duke University and clerked for Judge Eric L. Clay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Marisa Kabas is a lifestyle reporter and activist. Her work has appeared in Fusion, Fast Company, and Today. She is an editorial campaigns director for Purpose PBC, a social movement incubator.Kabas has been a reporter for Fusion Media and The Daily Dot.Kabas received her B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication from The George Washington University, School of Media and Public Affairs.

Erin Bartram is a historian of women, gender, religion, and ideas in the 19th century U.S., and a founder and editor of Contingent.