Stuart Schuffman
Stuart Schuffman, aka 'Broke-Ass Stuart', is an author, journalist, and social justice activist. He founded this site in 2007, as a platform for community expression and local news dedicated to working class people. He also has a weekly column, Broke-Ass City, which appears every other Thursday in the San Francisco Examiner.
Alex Mak
Alex is managing editor and co-owner of this experiment. He's best known for his local news coverage and interviews with community members, artists and eccentrics. He's got degrees in philosophy (public policy) and in cultural anthropology. He loves art, artists, restaurants, satire, travel, nightlife, and the Bay Area.
Vanessa Gil
Vanessa has been in Bay Area radio for over 14 years, currently as a morning drive traffic producer for iHeartMedia. She's a pop culture nerd with a deep love for hip-hop duo Atmosphere, and she enjoys the vibrant live music & art scene in the Bay Area.
Bunny McFadden
Bunny McFadden is a Chicana mother, writer, and educator in San Francisco.
Vita Hewitt
Vita is a half Chinese-Malaysian, photograph taking, plant foraging, vegetable garden growing, astronaut impersonating, conceptual art creating Bay Area human. She loves exploring the intricacies of the Bay Area Art Scene.
Amiee Kushner
Amiee specializes in Small business and non-profits. All aspects of company formation, including government filings, financial management, hiring and HR. Office and procedural re-organization. LLC and 501c(3) accounting procedures.
Peter Wong
Peter writes about the Bay Area film scene with an emphasis on independent films, festivals, and filmmakers for BAS. His film review work also appears regularly in Beyond Chron.
JC Carlston
Jarrett Carlston aka JC is a Bay native based in San Francisco. A writer and lover of untypical nonsense. He is the former co-owner and founder of Lower Branch (art blog, nomadic curating group and gallery). You got sports, art, music or dranks? Holler. He can easily be found bopping around all corners of the city with a beer or burrito in hand, so keep an eye out and say hello.
Abraham Woodliff
Abraham Woodliff is an Oakland-based writer, editor and digital content creator known for Bay Area Memes, a local meme page that has amassed nearly 200k followers. His work has appeared in SFGATE, The Bold Italic and of course, BrokeAssStuart.com. His book of short stories, personal essays and poetry entitled Don't Drown on Dry Ground will be available early 2022.
JAKE WARREN
Gay nonfiction writer and pragmatic editor belonging to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. Service industry veteran, incurable night owl, aspiring professor.
Paolo Bicchieri
Paolo Bicchieri (he/they) is a writer living on the coast. He's a reporter for Eater SF and the author of three books of fiction and one book of poetry.
Vijay Prakash
Professional Full stack Web designer and Web developer with more than 10+ yrs of vast expertise, with great special love for LAMP, MEAN stacks & WordPress.
Katy Atchison
Katy is a blend of all that is The Bay Area - she's an artist, web designer at a tech-company, and DIY teacher. She is a true local native - having been raised in The Bay Area since the age of 3. While other kids were attending summer camp & soccer practice, she was raised selling wares at craft shows with her working artist parents and spent vacations in a small 1920s Montana log cabin. This has all given her a unique perspective on the ever-changing texture of San Francisco and the Greater Bay Area.
Att. Daniel Wayne
Daniel is a Tenant's Rights Attorney, and a contributing columnist to BAS since 2015. He writes about Eviction defense, tenant harrassment, and fields questions from the community about their housing situations.