Emily Nussbaum is the television critic at The New Yorker. She previously served as an Editor-at-Large and Culture Editor at New York Magazine and Editor-in-Chief of Nerve.

Employee of the Month is a talk show about jobs, work, and labor. Catie Lazarus honors and interviews folks who forged their own way in the work world, and the universal we are better for it.

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