Here To Make Friends Creators & Guests

Emma Gray is a senior reporter focused on women's issues at HuffPost and the author of A Girl's Guide To Joining The Resistance. She is also the co-host of the Bachelor-themed podcast, Here To Make Friends.

Claire Fallon is a culture writer at HuffPost, where she focuses on literary fiction and trends, language, and pop culture. She is also co-host of HuffPost's Bachelor recap podcast Here To Make Friends.

Kristina is a Russian – born American dentist and reality TV personality and a cast member of Bachelor in Paradise season 6.

Erin Ryan is a TV writer at SunnyFXX, The Daily Beast and host of the Hysteria podcast.

Zeba Blay is a culture and film.Previously, Blay was a Senior Culture Writer at HuffPost. Her works has appeared in Allure, Film Comment, ESSENCE, The New York Times, Shadow and Act, The Village Voice, Indiewire, and the Webby Award-winning MTV digital series “Decoded.” In 2013, she coined the hashtag #carefreeblackgirl on Twitter.Blay's first book, a collection of pop culture essays called "Carefree Black Girls," was published in 2021.

Cameron Hamilton is an actor, and cast member of Love is Blind Show on Netflix.

Walt Hickey is Insider’s senior editor for data. Formerly, he was chief culture writer at FiveThirtyEight. He also writes Numlock News, a daily stat-based newsletter full of stories about everything from solar-powered helicopters to Facebook’s AI. He won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting for a story he edited about escaping a Uyghur work camp in China.