Jackie Mader is a senior editor at The Hechinger Report and an award-winning reporter whose stories have been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The LA Times, The Nation, NBC News, The New Republic, The Washington Post, and more. Jackie’s reporting on early childcare issues has directly impacted government policy, having been cited in congress, most recently by Elizabeth Warren and 50 other lawmakers, as well as by lawmakers from California, Maryland, and South Carolina, who have quoted her work in important legislative decisions.