It Could Happen Here Creators & Guests

Garrison Davis is a reporter and journalist.

Robert Evans is a former editor at Cracked and author of the ridiculous book A Brief History of Vice. Over the course of his career, he’s reported from war zones in Iraq and Ukraine, experimented on his co-workers with strange ancient narcotics and interviewed hundreds of people about their baffling careers. Now he’s taking his voice, as smooth as warm molasses, and making a podcast for HowStuffWorks.

Researcher for Cool Zone Media and co-host of It Could Happen Here.

Shereen Lani Younes is a Syrian filmmaker, poet and half of Ethnically Ambiguous.

Sophie Rae Lichterman is an executive producer at iHeartRadio, head of creative at Cool Zone Media, and producer of Behind the Bastards Podcast.

Vera Drew is an American editor, director, and writer.

They/Them. Queer, nonbinary, transmasc, disabled Co-host of Kitchen Table Cult Podcast. Filled with determination and the power of spite.

Anarchist writer, agitator and worker. Writing movie reviews and screeds against property, whiteness and the police. Author of In Defense of Looting (2020) and upcoming book The Extended Universe (2024). Her writing has also appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, The Rumpus, Real Life, and Al Jazeera America.

James Stout is an investigative journalist and historian of anti-fascism in sport with a PhD in Modern European History. His writing and photography has been featured in print and online in publications such as National Geographic, Esquire, Smithsonian, Lapham’s Quarterly, Undark, and The Appeal.

Jake Hanrahan is a journalist and documentary filmmaker.

Shane Burley is a writer, filmmaker, and union organizer based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), and editor of the anthology ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (IAS/AK Press, 2022). His work has appeared in places such as NBC News, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, The Baffler, The Daily Beast, Truthout, In These Times and Protean.

Chelsea Manning is an activist and whistleblower.

Dan Olson is a YouTuber.

Evan Urquhart is a transgender journalist, founder of Assigned Media, Community Manager at Slate. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Politico, NewNowNext, Truthout, and Autostraddle.

Andrew Sage is a writer, artist, organizer, and YouTuber (Andrewism) born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago.

Cory Efram Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. He serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.