Caleb Gayle is a journalist who writes about race and identity. Currently, he is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. Gayle's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, the Three Penny Review, Guernica, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, the Harvard Review, Pacific Standard, the New Republic, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Root, and the Daily Beast, and was collected in the 2019 Best American Essays. His first book, "We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power," was published in 2023. In addition to writing, Gayle serves as a Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice at Northeastern University as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Arthur Carter Journalism Institute at NYU.