Maya Binyam is a senior editor of Triple Canopy, an editor of the New Inquiry, and a lecturer in the New School’s Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program. She has previously worked as an editor at The Paris Review, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is a co-creator of Bail Bloc, a desktop application that mines cryptocurrency to pay bail for people in pretrial incarceration.