Stephanie Slade is a senior editor at Reason, the magazine of free minds and free markets, and a fellow in liberal studies at the Acton Institute.

Prior to joining Reason, Slade worked as a speechwriter, a pollster, and a regular contributor to U.S. News and World Report. In 2013 she was named a finalist for the Bastiat Prize for Journalism. In 2016 she was selected as a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow. She's a proud graduate of the University of Florida, where she studied economics and political science.