About
I’m a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn. I recently published the cover story for Jacobin’s winter issue on AI existential risk. I wrote a cover story for The Nation magazine about my experience working for some of McKinsey’s most controversial clients, ICE and Rikers Island (it was translated to French and Spanish and republished in Le Monde Diplomatique). I wrote a feature for BBC Future on progress studies, a young movement that aims to better understand and accelerate “progress.” I wrote a reported essay for Vox on the harms of a pescetarian diet. I’ve reported on alternatives to police in New York Focus and written print features for Current Affairs magazine: an initially anonymous analytical exposé on how McKinsey accelerates and exacerbates the worst harms of capitalism; an extensive analysis of the history, economics, and politics of psychedelic drugs in America; and a critique of the business podcasts The Tim Ferriss Show, Freakonomics Radio, and Recode Decode with Kara Swisher for conducting propagandistic interviews with odious business people. I've also covered criminal legal issues and interviewed some famous musicians for Jacobin. I appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning to discuss my work at McKinsey. My writing has been referenced by The New Yorker (by Ted Chiang), ProPublica, New York Magazine, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Week, In These Times, GQ, Mother Jones, and elsewhere.
I graduated from Cornell University, where I co-founded the Prison Reform and Education Project and volunteered as a teaching assistant in the Cornell Prison Education Program. I previously worked in fundraising technology at GiveDirectly, an NGO that sends unconditional cash transfers to some of the poorest people in the world, and as a product manager at Enigma Technologies, a data-linking startup. I host the podcast The Most Interesting People I Know where I interview writers, researchers, and activists on politics, science, and ethics.
You can email me at tgarrisonlovely [at] gmail [dot] com.
Me, attempting to look serious