The Braintrust

Project Word depends on the following editorial advisers for occasional editorial guidance and assistance to writers:

Aina Barten
Former features editor at Orion magazine

Daniel Bellow
Former editorial writer, Pulitzer Prize–winning Berkshire Eagle newspaper

Bronwyn Becker
Copy editor for Amnesty International USA

Mark Dowie
Investigative reporter and winner of seven National Magazine awards

Cynthia Gorney
UC Berkeley journalism professor and freelance writer for Harper’s, Vanity Fair, etc.

Sarah Lipincott
Former copy chief of The New Yorker

Ian Shearn
Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter formerly of the North Jersey Herald News