Mekita Rivas is a freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C. She has covered culture, style, and politics through the lens of gender, race, and ethnicity since 2016. Previously an editor at Cosmopolitan, senior contributing fashion editor at PopSugar, and senior fashion writer at Bustle, her writing has been published in the New York Times, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, Architectural Digest, and Refinery29.
