Megan Carpentier is a freelance writer who, most recently, was the editor of news and politics at Air America. She is regularly published on The Guardian’s “Comment is free” and was an editor at Jezebel.com and an associate editor at Wonkette. Her work has also appeared in the Washington Post, on Foreign Policy’s “Madame Secretary” blog, in Ms., in Radar Magazine, on Glamour’s “Glamocracy” blog, and on the Huffington Post, Alternet and the Daily Beast.

Prior to writing about politics, she spent seven years working in them as a lobbyist in Washington. She has a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts from Boston University.