John Edgar Lopez is a Data & Society affiliate. He got his start as an assistant to feature film producers before moving on to cover film and the arts for Grantland, Vanity Fair online, The Los Angeles Times, Departures, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek among other publications. An alum of the CBS writers mentoring program and the Sundance Episodic Lab, John has written and produced for shows including Paramount Plus’s Strange Angle, Netflix’s Seven Seconds, and The Terminal List for Amazon.