Genevieve Finn will join The Atlantic as an assistant editor in their NYC office in January 2025. In this new role, she will be responsible for fact-checking The Atlantic's content across the magazine, the newsroom, and podcasts. Prior to this, she interned at two magazines: Harper's and n+1. Before that, she worked as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, a remote US research station on the southern tip of Ross island, and as a bartender on the award-winning Mckinley Explorer luxury train in the Alaskan interior. As a Mitchell Scholar, Genevieve studied Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin. She still maintains close ties to Ireland, receiving regular visits from her Irish friends in Dublin and hanging out frequently with her Irish friends who live in NYC. Before becoming a Mitchell, Genevieve graduated from summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from UCLA with a bachelor's in English, completing her degree in just 2.5 years as a working student. She also worked as a reporter for a local newspaper in Malibu, interned with the New York Times Australia Bureau and GQ Australia, and won fellowships and awards from the Overseas Press Club Foundation, ProPublica Data Institute, California News Publishers Association, and the Steven Sotloff Memorial 2Lives Foundation. Between ages 20 and 25, she traveled to all seven continents and lived on five.