Ari Pinkus

Ari Pinkus is an outreach specialist for the American Communities Project, where she serves as senior editor, writer, and project manager. She has been with the project since 2018, exploring the cultural, economic, and political changes remaking the country at the local level. Please visit americancommunities.org

Starting in June 2026, the American Communities Project received a $1.6 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to continue doing work exploring the fragmentation of American society and culture. That work will combine survey research, data analysis and on-the-ground reporting in an effort to better understand what is dividing the country and what might help stitch it back together.

Earlier in her career, Pinkus was digital editor/producer at the National Association of Independent Schools in Washington, DC, where she spearheaded and stewarded the thought leadership blog, Independent Ideas, cultivating and editing 100+ writers and conducting Q&As with educational trailblazers, including Sir Ken Robinson and Sal Khan. Previously, she was a national news editor at The Christian Science Monitor in Boston.