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Zach Stafford

Contributor
MSNBC

Zach Stafford is an award-winning journalist and currently serves as a contributor to MSNBC and host of the iHeart Radio show "In The Deep: Stories That Shape Us." Recently he was the editor-at-large of BuzzFeed and host of the daily live-streaming show AM2DM. Prior to these roles, he was the first black editor-in-chief of The Advocate, served as the chief content officer of Grindr and was an investigative journalist at The Guardian. In 2019, he was included in the Forbes' 30 Under 30 list and also named one of the 100 most influential Black people by The Root.

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