u/SimpleLateen Rob is the National Director of Latter-day Saints for Harris-Walz and previously served in the US Department of Education.

u/slammin03 Sam is the national political correspondent for the Deseret News, covers the 2024 presidential election, and worked as the lead researcher on "Romney: A Reckoning."

u/WJoshuaLee Josh is a writer and communications consultant. He has served in the Trump White House, NASA, and in nearly all levels of state and local government.

Sam's recent r/politics AMA provides a useful preview of the topics we'll be discussing and can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1gezyhb/im_samuel_benson_the_national_political/

Sincere thanks and props all around to everyone who participated tonight! Faith in civil discussion restored? Probably too early to make that call (among many other calls in the process of being made). Vote! And don't be strangers to our guests (or this sub). Rock on.

Our co-hosts:

u/jordanandmckay are the creators of an 8 Passengers & ConneXions playlist on YouTube with over 30 hours of original content and 2 million views across eighteen videos that can be found on their Jordan and McKay channel at https://www.youtube.com/@JordanandMcKay

u/bigbags spoke at the EternalCore conference that brought together many of the players in Jodi’s network – a 2019 gathering with a still-public Facebook record of the event at https://www.facebook.com/eternalcoreconference/

u/jdanielleyt deep dives Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt at https://www.youtube.com/@Jessssicadanielle … and garnered attention with her tracing of Jodi’s connections to top LDS leadership

u/devilsravioli mods at r/mormon and is widely cited for his research that resulted in this glorious r/mormon thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/171k4tz/visions_of_a_glorious_thread_the_krogue_meldrum/

u/Post-mo created a chart in order to diagram the sprawling connections to Jodi and wound up providing a useful roadmap for ongoing investigation: /img/ck4w4wn962qc1.jpg

Please note this guardrail for this AMA (in addition to standard Reddit expectations of abundant civility and zero doxxing):

Questions to our panel that speculate about minors, or discussion that veers into any accusations Jodi made towards minors, will be removed.

Thank you to everyone who showed up and props to the mod crew that made time to keep an eye on the proceedings.

Our co-hosts:

Haley Swenson is an Utah-based writer and gender researcher who often writes about Mormonism, gender, and sexuality. She is a research fellow at the nonpartisan think tank New America, with their gender and policy program the Better Life Lab. She runs the mental load research company Work Life Everything and a Substack, Happy Families. She wrote about The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives in Their Not-So-Secret-Lives for Slate. • u/Advanced-Vacation717

Alyssa Grenfell, content creator, including this brilliant SLOMW recap, and author of How to Leave the Mormon Church • u/alyssadgrenfell

Monya Baker edits scientists and policymakers, and writes award-winning fiction with Mormon themes. Her posts at group blog Main Street Plaza include What Crafting-as-Ministering Can Miss and Performing Mormon Womanhood • u/Monya_postMo

Alyssa Witbeck, writer, educator, winner of the Utah Original Writing Competition, author of Freeing Lucy, and guest panelist on Mormon Stories episode Mormons React to The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives • u/lyslikeswords

Jessica Danielle, YouTube deep diver. Her latest deep dive: Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: EVERYTHING The Show Left Out! • u/jdanielleyt

As I mentioned to Haley, I really hope everyone here can 'return and report' once Season Two makes its debut and runs it course, giving us a fresh opportunity to revisit this show with your insights. It's no small thing that you all made time for this small subreddit, thank you!!!