Ari Bloomekatz is a writer, editor, and movement publisher. He is currently the executive editor of In These Times magazine and lives in Chicago.

Ari first started working as a professional journalist when he was 17 and wrote for The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville. He went on to write for the Cincinnati Enquirer, The Seattle Times, and The Boston Globe and his writing has appeared in The Washington Post and many other publications. After graduating from UCLA (where Ari is proud he spent more time writing for The Daily Bruin than attending class) Ari was hired as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, and would go on to work there for about seven years. While at the Los Angeles Times, Ari published dozens of front-page stories—of nearly 1,000 articles overall—and was a finalist for the Livingston Award.

Ari later covered politics for the nonprofit Voice of San Diego and then expanded his work into books and magazines. He was hired as managing editor of Tikkun magazine in Berkeley and went on to help run Rethinking Schools magazine as managing editor in Milwaukee. At Rethinking Schools, Ari led production of the bestselling book, Teaching for Black Lives.. Shortly before the pandemic began, Ari also started working with Jewish Currents magazine and built their book publishing operation whose main publication was The Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah.

Ari is also chair of the advisory board for the podcast Unsettled, served as an advisor for The Perch, a journal based out of Yale University, is currently on the board of an emerging music magazine, and is editing a new book on anti-fascism by Shane Burley (Haymarket). Ari is also in the process of building an In These Times imprint with Haymarket books.

Ari also teaches, lectures, and provides trainings on various journalism topics. He is a movement organizer who specializes in digital organizing and other narrative work, and for fun, Ari is a big fan of books and bikes, cooking and art, and he’s usually listening to music (right now listening to the new Caamp). He roots like hell for the Dodgers and loves being an uncle—going to arcades and playing chess and trading baseball cards with his nieces and nephew.