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In collaboration with the essential Baltimore Beat, we've assembled a panel of some of our favorite Baltimore authors, journalists, and media-makers for a discussion of the state of the city.  Lisa Snowden-McCray is a Baltimore journalist and the editor of the Baltimore Beat.D. Watkins is Editor at Large for Salon. His work has been published in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He holds a Master’s in Education from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Baltimore. He is a college lecturer at the University of Baltimore and founder of the BMORE Writers Project, and has also been the recipient of numerous awards including the BMe Genius Grant, and the Ford’s Men of Courage. He has lectured at countless universities, and events, around the world. Watkins is from and lives in Baltimore. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America and The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir and We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America.Lawrence Lanahan has worked in radio and print journalism for over a decade, including five years producing for WYPR, Baltimore's NPR station. At WYPR, he won a duPont Award for "The Lines Between Us," a year-long multimedia series about inequality. The New Press released Lanahan's first nonfiction book, The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide, on May 21, 2019. ​ Lanahan has master's degrees in sociology from American University and in journalism from Columbia University. He writes songs and performs in Baltimore, sometimes with the band Disappearing Ink. Lanahan lives in Baltimore with his wife and two sons.Stacia L. Brown was born in Lansing, MI. She grew up in Baltimore, MD–the county, not the city. (Only other Baltimoreans will truly understand why it’s necessary to make that distinction.) She is an award winning writer, poet, and radio producer. In November 2015, Stacia became the creator and producer of Baltimore: The Rise of Charm City, a radio and podcast series that tells intergenerational stories of place and memory in Baltimore City, produced in partnership with WEAA 88.9. She is the creator of Hope Chest, a collection of audio essays written to her daughter and present in podcast form. Hope Chest has been featured on BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts and the Third Coast International Audio Festival podcast, Re:Sound. It was named one of Audible Feast’s Best New Podcasts of 2017.