Ari Bloomekatz is a storyteller living in Chicago.

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He is currently the executive editor of In These Times.
Ari was previously managing editor of 
Rethinking Schools and Tikkun magazines,
and before that he spent several years as a staff
writer at the Los Angeles Times.

 

He also helps create and edit books including Teaching for Black Lives and The Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah.

 

Ari also teaches journalism and storytelling and is proud to be on the advisory boards of the Unsettled podcast as well as an emerging magazine. Ari is also movement organizer. He moonlights as a certified chocolatier and knish aficionado.