Meagan Day is a Senior Editor at Jacobin, where she has worked since 2017 as both a writer and editor. Day’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Baffler, n+1, Vox, ArtReview, Frieze, and elsewhere.

Day is the author of the creative nonfiction book Maximum Sunlight (Wolfman Books, December 2016), an excerpt of which was selected for inclusion in the Best American series, and the co-author with Micah Uetricht of the book Bigger than Bernie (Verso, April 2020), about the impact of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns and the future prospects for progressive organizing in America.

Day’s writing has been translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Chinese, and other languages. She has been interviewed by the Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the Harvard Political Review. References to her work have appeared in CNN, The Hill, and Politico. In 2025, an essay she wrote for Jacobin was awarded runner-up for the Daniel Singer Millennium Prize.

In addition to her work at Jacobin, Day is also Editor of the Global Labour Column. In 2025, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project named her a Next Gen Digital Media Fellow. She is a frequent contributor to More Perfect Union. She also works as a consulting writer for the PBS show Rogue History.

Day has spoken around the world about US politics and society, from Berlin to Montreal to Delhi. In 2022 she addressed the Oxford Union. She is a founding member of the Berlin-based Tipping Point Institute.

​She lives in Los Angeles, California. Email her at meagan.day@jacobin.com