The Team

Jerusalem Demsas is the Editor-in-Chief of The Argument. Most recently, she was a staff writer at The Atlantic where she created and hosted the podcast Good on Paper. Her work has spanned such issues as citizen voice, federalism, labor economics, NIMBY-ism, gentrification, race, gender, and the politics of exclusion. Demsas is the author of On The Housing Crisis: Land, Development, and Democracy. She previously wrote for Vox as a policy journalist and co-hosted the The Weeds.

Kelsey Piper is a staff writer at The Argument based in Oakland reporting on AI, tech, science, and politics. She previously worked as a staff writer at Vox's Future Perfect.

Lakshya Jain is a pollster, machine learning engineer, and The Argument’s director of political data. Jain founded the election analysis firm Split Ticket which has received acclaim for their accurate models and novel ways of presenting election data. His work has previously been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and POLITICO.

Fellows

Kobe Yank-Jacobs is The Argument’s Technology & Society fellow. A California native and Boston University graduate, he has worked on Pete Buttigieg’s New Hampshire campaign, Massachusetts voter outreach, public policy research at National Journal, and political consulting. He most recently studied creative writing at Columbia.

Maibritt Henkel is The Argument’s Gender, Families, & Culture fellow. Originally from Copenhagen, she graduated from Harvard in 2025 studying economics and social studies, with research focused on men’s role in feminism. She has previously worked at the Danish magazine Zetland, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and in political consulting.

Milan Singh is The Argument’s Polling & Political Data fellow and a senior studying economics at Yale, where he founded the Yale Youth Poll. Originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts, he has worked at Slow Boring, the Niskanen Center, Blueprint, and the Yale Daily News.