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Rian Watt
Rian Watt joined the board at The Urbanist in 2022. He is a public policy researcher and freelance writer who lives in Capitol Hill with his cats, Lassi and Maki, and his wife, Jenny. His research is focused on housing and homelessness (with a particular focus on youth homelessness) and his writing is focused on baseball (with a particular focus on Javier Báez). Rian has had bylines at The Athletic, Baseball Prospectus, Chicago magazine, FanGraphs, FiveThirtyEight, The Ringer, the Sporting News, and VICE Sports, and is a member of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
