About Adam Serwer
Adam has received awards from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), The Root, and the Society of Professional Journalists. He was named a spring 2019 Shorenstein Center fellow. He received a 2019 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism. Serwer has a B.A. from Vassar College and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. Following graduate school, he was a writing fellow at The American Prospect. He later worked at Mother Jones, MSNBC, The Washington Post, and BuzzFeed News as the national editor. Serwer joined The Atlantic in 2016. His work there has focused on white supremacy, race in America, and the Trump administration. He has won attention for influential essays like White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots” and “The Cruelty Is the Point.”