Meet the hosts of Stateside with Kai and Carter

Kai Wright

Kai Wright is a Peabody award-winning host, editor, and writer whose activity explores nan intersection of history, power, and nan evolving American identity. He antecedently hosted WNYC’s Notes From America pinch Kai Wright, a unrecorded call-in show that aired connected nationalist power stations astir nan country. Kai has besides led respective acclaimed limited-run podcasts for WNYC Studios, including Blindspot Season 3: The Plague successful nan Shadows, which documents nan early years of nan Aids pandemic successful nan US; Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice, honored pinch an Alfred I duPont-Columbia University award; and The United States of Anxiety, which chronicled nan emergence of nan Maga activity and its effect connected our governmental civilization complete 4 seasons of original reporting. Kai is nan writer of Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age connected nan Streets of New York, as good arsenic 2 surveys of Black American history, and a contributor to nan best-selling postulation Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America.

Carter Sherman

Carter Sherman has been pinch nan Guardian since 2023, starring nan newsroom’s sum of gender, powerfulness and authorities successful nan US, pinch a attraction connected reproductive authorities and justice. Previously a elder newsman for Vice News, Carter’s activity some successful beforehand of and down nan camera has garnered respective awards and nominations, including a National Press Club Journalism Award, a Scripps Howard award, and 4 Emmy nominations. Carter has written for publications specified arsenic Elle, Ms Magazine, and Los Angeles magazine, and has been interviewed by outlets specified arsenic nan New York Times, NPR’s Fresh Air, and PBS NewsHour for her crisp commentary connected everything from nan unraveling of national abortion protections to really authorities is reshaping gender identity. Carter is nan writer of The Second Coming: Sex and nan Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future, an incisive relationship of really a caller procreation is navigating battles complete sex, identity, and power successful post-Roe America. She is an alumna of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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