Our People
Mr. Brown
Senior Editor
Mr. Brown is a senior editor at Reporting from the Uncanny Valley. A Black British editor born in London and raised in more places than a bio can hold, he now works from New York's Hudson Valley. His writing moves between technology, history, and fiction, always with the same question: what does this cost the people who have to live with it?
Noel
Host
Noel hosts Reporting from the Uncanny Valley and The RFTUV Briefing. From a Connecticut upbringing and now based in New York's Hudson Valley, she talks with the publication's resident experts about artificial intelligence, technology, culture, and the strange places where new systems meet ordinary life.
June Mercer
Valley Reporter / Newsletter Editor
June Mercer covers Dutchess County and the wider Hudson Valley for Reporting from the Uncanny Valley and edits its free newsletter. She writes about town boards, roads, schools, land, and the small stories that turn out not to be small. She lives in Stanfordville.
Mara Quinn
Resident Expert, Media & Business of Tech
Mara Quinn is Reporting from the Uncanny Valley's resident expert on media and the business of technology. She covers platforms, deals, incentives, and the money moving underneath new machines. She lives in Beacon.
Ellis Ward
Resident Expert, AI Systems
Ellis Ward is Reporting from the Uncanny Valley's resident expert on AI systems and research norms. He explains how models are tested, where agents break down, and what a study does and does not prove. He lives in Albany.
Callahan Blackwood
Critical Investigator
Callahan Blackwood is Reporting from the Uncanny Valley's critical investigator. Born in Derry and raised between Ireland and Scotland, he covers power, institutions, and the decisions made before the meeting starts. He lives outside Kingston.
Silas Van Wyck
Host, Dead Air Valley
Silas Van Wyck hosts Dead Air Valley. He digs into quiet roads and gray afternoons in New York's Hudson Valley, where present-day towns sit on buried history that never quite settled. From Rhinecliff, the stories drift to other valleys with the same stagnant air.