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Kenny Martin (he/him/his) graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, with degrees in English and music and minors in history, chemistry, and Spanish. At SMU, Kenny was a member of the ballroom dance team (his favorite dance is the foxtrot) and editor-in-chief of Hilltopics, an arts and opinion magazine; he was also a President’s Scholar and Meadows Scholar. After spending the summer of 2018 in Warsaw with Humanity in Action, he was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Trujillo, Peru. For Humanity in Action and the Bertelsmann Foundation, he edited the book How to Fix Democracy and has contributed several essays to Transponder magazine. He was previously a writing expert at Grammarly and an editorial assistant at Penguin Random House. Kenny lives in New York City, where he is an Assistant Editor at Wine Spectator.
Updated February 2025