Meagan Day is an editor at Jacobin, where she was previously a staff writer.
14 Facts About Meagan Day
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Meagan Day is the author of the 2016 book Maximum Sunlight and co-author of the book Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism.
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Meagan Day's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vox, n+1, The Baffler, In These Times, Mother Jones, The Believer, and elsewhere, and she's been interviewed by the Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the Harvard Political Review.
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Meagan Day is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Meagan Day received her bachelor's degree at Oberlin College, graduating in 2012.
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Meagan Day received her master's degree from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2013, and in the years following contributed to Full Stop, n+1 and The New Inquiry.
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In 2016, Meagan Day wrote the book Maximum Sunlight which details her experience as she visits Tonopah, Nevada, an isolated, unincorporated town located in the middle of the desert, between Reno and Las Vegas.
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Meagan Day first received media attention for her writing in Jacobin when she was invited in 2018 to be interviewed on The Michael Brooks Show, which she would later say became the start of a friendship with the host, Michael Brooks.
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Meagan Day began to appear on Michael Brooks's show regularly, along with other podcasts and YouTube shows, to provide left-wing commentary on American politics.
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Meagan Day's work was cited in the Trump White House's report on the dangers of the growing American socialist movement.
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Meagan Day openly supported the nomination of Bernie Sanders during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary.
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In 2020 Jeremy Cliffe, writing in the New Statesman while writing in support of Joe Biden during his general election campaign, used Meagan Day's writing to show how the former Vice President was not "exactly the preferred Democratic presidential candidate of progressives in the US" going on to say she "spoke for many on the left".
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In 2020, along with co-author Micah Uetricht, Meagan Day published the book Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism.
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Meagan Day mentioned in that interview that the way they approached the book was to ensure it would be useful no matter how the then-ongoing Democratic Party primary turned out, and so when writing about their ideas had "tried to boil it down to basics".