I’m Mac McCann. I’m a social media expert and writer, who’s passionate about writing, news, politics, history, religious studies, music (especially hip-hop) and comedy.

Currently, I’m the social media strategist for Pluckers Wing Bar. For my work with Pluckers, I’ve been interviewed on Time Crisis, an Apple Music Beats 1 radio show hosted by Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig.

According to BuzzFeed, some of my Tweets are “literally hilarious.”

Previously, I created and curated content for theCHIVE’s social media, which had a following of 3.8 million on Facebook, 1.4 million on Instagram, and over 570 thousand on Twitter. Our content reached millions upon millions of people each month.

Since I was first published in 2011, I’ve written hundreds of articles covering a wide variety of topics. I’ve been published in more than a dozen different publications around the country, including The Dallas Morning News, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, The Houston Chronicle, The Charlotte Observer, The Seattle Times, Sun-Sentinel, The Huffington Post, The Austin American-Statesman, Reason, Complex, The Albany Times-Union, Virgin Islands Daily News, OC Weekly, OnFaith, Phoenix New Times and The Daily Texan, among others.

My reporting and research has been cited by NPR, The Washington Post, The Atlantic as well as The Atlantic’s City Lab, Reason, The Daily Dot, and Rap Genius.

(For a quick summary of my work, here are my ten favorite from 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016).

Between Sept. 1 and Dec. 29, I was a news writer for Complex, where I wrote and aggregated over 330 articles.

Over the summer of 2016, I was the Editorial Board Intern at The Dallas Morning News, where I’ve written about a wide variety of local and national topics. Many of 40+ were also published around the country, from the Charlotte Observer to the Hawaii Tribune-Herald to the Sun Sentinel in Florida to the Albany Times Union to the Virgin Islands Daily News and a handful of other publications in between. Following the Dallas Ambush, I was interviewed on Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, and SPIN 1038, a radio station in Dublin, Ireland. In August, I won the DMN‘s in-house writing award for Commentary and Criticism between April and June. My three winning entries (on sexual assault, Trump, and homophobia) made me the only intern to win an award.

In May 2016, I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Plan II Honors, Religious Studies Honors, and History triple-major, and a minor in American Studies, as well as a Certificate in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. During college, I was selected as a Headliners Foundation Scholar and a Jefferson Junior Fellow. I’m a member of Theta Alpha Kappa, the national honors society for religious studies, and a member of Phi Alpha Theta, the national honors society for history. At the 2015 Central Texas Colloquium on Religion, I presented my academic paper “MCs & Marx: Examining Rap from a Historical Materialist Perspective,” which I expanded into my 17,000+ word Plan II Honors and Religious Studies Honors senior thesis.

From the fall of 2013 to May of 2016, I was a news reporter for the Austin Chronicle, where I wrote about a variety of topics and wrote three cover stories.

During the summer of 2013, I was an intern with The Dallas Observer, and I still contribute occasionally. From January 2013 until September 2015, I was the opinion editor and a reporter for The Horn, which was an online publication based in Austin. I’ve also worked for The Daily Texan.

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“I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own. A costive reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.” -Thomas Jefferson