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đź’› After nearly 30 years, today we say farewell. đź’›Since our founding, YES! Media has sought to amplify voices too often u...
06/13/2025

đź’› After nearly 30 years, today we say farewell. đź’›

Since our founding, YES! Media has sought to amplify voices too often unheard, spotlight solutions too rarely seen, and offer a vision of what’s possible even in the most challenging times.

As we officially close this chapter, we do so with full hearts — and with profound gratitude for every reader, contributor, supporter, and staff member who helped build and sustain this movement. YOU made YES! what it was.

While YES! Media sunsets, we are thrilled to be able to share that our stories will continue to have an impact. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of our staff, board, and partners, nearly three decades of YES! content will be preserved and remain accessible through our friends at Truthout — ensuring this archive of solutions journalism continues to inspire future changemakers. ❤️

We invite you to keep supporting Truthout as well as other independent media and storytellers who carry this work forward — including our own Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar and her show Rising Up with Sonali.

Finally, thank you for walking alongside us these many years even as the work continues.

Keep raising your voice. Keep seeking solutions. Keep saying YES!

Click here to read our full farewell statement: https://www.yesmagazine.org/farewell-and-thank-you-from-yes-media




✨ As we approach our final days, we’re honored to share one of our most personal reflections. ✨In this beautiful farewel...
06/11/2025

✨ As we approach our final days, we’re honored to share one of our most personal reflections. ✨

In this beautiful farewell essay, YES! Magazine’s Founding Editor, Sarah van Gelder reflects on nearly 30 years of bold, solutions-driven journalism — and the vision, values, and imagination that shaped YES! into the publication and community so many of you have known and loved.

Our final message will come this Friday, June 13 — but today, we invite you to join us in celebrating the legacy you helped build. 💛

📖 Read Sarah’s full farewell essay here: https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2025/06/11/the-world-is-burning-does-the-yes-approach-still-matter


For our sixth staff spotlight, we're honoring Sunnivie Brydum, former managing editor at YES!Sunnivie is an award-winnin...
05/15/2025

For our sixth staff spotlight, we're honoring Sunnivie Brydum, former managing editor at YES!

Sunnivie is an award-winning journalist and editorial leader with more than 15 years of experience writing, editing, and directing journalism in service of social change.

Sunnivie was hired in 2019 as editorial director to solidify YES! Media’s embrace of solutions journalism, and spent the next six years building and supporting the team that boldly demanded justice, equity, and unflinching honesty in our coverage of the greatest challenges of our time.

A veteran of q***r and independent media, Sunnivie is at their best working alongside colleagues who share the belief that journalism is an essential tool in the fight for collective liberation. They have held nearly every position on the masthead, but editing is their true calling.

Sunnivie is open to all types of editorial work. They are especially seeking opportunities to be part of another team that fearlessly speaks truth to power and lifts up the voices of those often excluded from mainstream coverage.

Swipe to read Sunnivie's message to YES! readers and learn how to get in touch.

For our eighth and final staff spotlight, we're honoring Kimi Mehlinger, donor support specialist at YES!Kimi’s professi...
05/15/2025

For our eighth and final staff spotlight, we're honoring Kimi Mehlinger, donor support specialist at YES!

Kimi’s professional background is in customer service, executive administration, and mortgage lending. She started working at 13 with a family business, where she helped with manufacturing, sales, and accounting. As a mother, she felt the need to be a part of something greater than herself.

Kimi seeks to do work that impacts the world in a positive way, especially when there is “so much going on that threatens to destroy the America I once knew, the world I once wanted to explore and the quality of life that is quickly becoming more and more difficult for the next generation to enjoy.”

As the donor support specialist at YES! Media, Kimi connected and supported our incredible readers and donors—sometimes just through a phone call or email—but always with a sense of shared values and vision. She viewed YES! as a crucial resource to inspire, reach, and teach others how to maintain, sustain, and heal our world on a daily basis.

Swipe to read Kimi's message to YES! readers and learn how to get in touch.

For our seventh staff spotlight, we're honoring Doug Indrick, director of operations and technology at YES!Doug is a non...
05/15/2025

For our seventh staff spotlight, we're honoring Doug Indrick, director of operations and technology at YES!

Doug is a nonprofit technology and database expert, an operations and systems strategist, and a musician. Since starting at YES! Media in 2018, he has been the owner of all internal and external-facing systems, managed teams and contractors, co-built organizational budgets, and collaborated with staff at every level to build and improve YES!’s operational systems to help maximize organizational impact.

Doug has a depth of experience in nonprofit leadership and planning, administering fundraising databases and technology, and bottom-lining essential legal, HR and financial requirements for organizations. He is passionate about helping organizations become more efficient and effective while taking care of their most important asset—their employees.

Doug is open to full-time and contract roles supporting organizations with their database, operations and technology needs.

Swipe to read Doug's message to YES! readers and learn how to get in touch.

For our fifth staff spotlight, we're honoring Michael Luong, associate art director at YES!Michael joined YES! Media in ...
05/15/2025

For our fifth staff spotlight, we're honoring Michael Luong, associate art director at YES!

Michael joined YES! Media in the autumn of 2021, and has always had a penchant for working for independent journalistic outlets that cover topics that resonate with his own personal values—and uses that fuel to tell visual stories.

As the associate art director, Michael used visual storytelling to highlight the voices and perspectives of others. He believes there is such power and healing to be had when we let people tell their own stories for themselves.

You may have seen some of his illustrations in YES!’s popular columns, including: Murmurations with adrienne maree brown, Apocalypse Chow with Arun Gupta, and Reckoning with Raquel Willis. He has also designed and branded special editorial initiatives like Building the Block, Realizing Reparations, and Progress 2025.

Michael also created data driven infographics for the print issue, designed visuals for our online stories, and tailored stories for social media. He is interested in art director and designer roles.

Swipe to read Michael's message to YES! readers and learn how to get in touch.

For our fourth staff spotlight, we're honoring Natalie Pryor, art director at YES!Natalie is a purpose-driven designer a...
05/15/2025

For our fourth staff spotlight, we're honoring Natalie Pryor, art director at YES!

Natalie is a purpose-driven designer and art director with deep expertise in visual storytelling and brand clarity.

Since 2021, Natalie has helped reshape YES! Media’s visual identity to reflect its evolving focus during a time of rising misinformation, socio-political division, and organizational transformation.

From executing a full magazine redesign to developing cross-team workflows and creating brand-aligned marketing and promotional materials, she collaborated across teams to elevate and unify the brand.

Natalie’s covers and spreads have been praised for their emotional resonance. Her art direction prioritized commissioning BIPOC, q***r, and disabled creatives, and collaborating with solutions-oriented organizations with lived connections to the stories YES! publishes.

Natalie is open to new collaborations in visual storytelling, creative direction, and purpose-driven spaces—whether activist-driven, movement-centered, or healing-focused.

Swipe to read Natalie's message to YES! readers and learn how to get in touch.

For our third staff spotlight, we're honoring Julia Luz Betancourt, associate editor at YES!Julia is a multimedia journa...
05/14/2025

For our third staff spotlight, we're honoring Julia Luz Betancourt, associate editor at YES!

Julia is a multimedia journalist, editor, and audience engagement professional who believes journalism has a duty to bring about justice.

Since joining YES! Media in 2023, Julia worked on fundraising, newsletters, social media, and reported original solutions stories for YES!’s activism beat. Her work redefined YES!’s voice, engaged new audiences, and protected the organization’s independence from corporate influence by raising $100,000 in reader donations.

Julia is most proud of her reportage; she covered the struggle to end sexual violence in the era following , the art and culture arm of the movement for Palestinian liberation, and how student activists are resisting repression from the Trump administration.

Regardless of what her next role brings, Julia is committed to providing solutions and accountability journalism. She will soon launch her own newsletter on Substack, and is open to work in reporting, social media production, audience engagement, and editing roles.

Swipe to read Julia's message to YES! readers and learn how to get in touch.

For our second staff spotlight, we're honoring Sonali Kolhatkar, senior editor at YES! Sonali is an award-winning journa...
05/14/2025

For our second staff spotlight, we're honoring Sonali Kolhatkar, senior editor at YES!

Sonali is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, essayist, and author. She joined YES! Media in 2021 as the racial justice editor, and leaves as senior editor.

As an editor, Sonali led a series of thoughtful commentaries by incarcerated essayist Dortell Williams, oversaw YES!'s abolition-themed content, and spearheaded much of YES!'s coverage of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, including bringing Arun Gupta's groundbreaking exposé on false claims of Hamas mass rapes.

In 2023, Sonali merged her award-winning radio and television program with YES! to amplify solutions through broadcast journalism and provide an antidote to the doom and gloom of mainstream news.

She will now take the program fully independent, and is offering YES! supporters the chance to subscribe and support the program for as little as $4 a month to receive exclusive access to her unique video and audio interviews.

Swipe to read Sonali's message to YES! readers and learn how to get in touch.

Show love for the people who brought you YES! stories. ❤️ For our first staff spotlight, we're honoring Breanna Draxler,...
05/14/2025

Show love for the people who brought you YES! stories. ❤️

For our first staff spotlight, we're honoring Breanna Draxler, deputy editor at YES!

Breanna is a skilled editor, reporter, and writer who brings integrity and heart to her journalistic coverage. She has produced impactful stories on climate solutions, environmental justice, and Indigenous sovereignty for YES! since 2019.

Breanna’s 14 years in journalism have earned her a stellar story sense and a keen eye for details. She has a strong track record of collaboration and cares deeply about the writers and sources who entrust her with their words.

Breanna is ready to contribute her editorial skills to another newsroom or organization where she can elevate stories with impact.

Swipe to read Breanna's message to YES! readers and learn how to get in touch.

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