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Bari’s Picks: Gen-Z Takeover
“I left feeling more connected and socially invigorated than I had in months,” writes Lexi Baker. (Shereen Cohen Kheradyar for The Free Press.)
All the stories you need to read to understand what the people born between 1997 and 2013 are up to—told by the ones living it.
By Sascha Seinfeld
08.08.25 — Editors' Picks
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A jarring number of people in The Free Press office are under 30 and on Wednesday morning, a lot of them were late to work. Was I mad? No. I was thrilled. Because all of them were nursing hangovers from the previous night—our first ever Free Press Under-30 Meet-Ups, with two parties in New York and D.C.

Gen Z has a terrible reputation. These are the kids…

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Sascha Seinfeld
Sascha is a contributing writer at The Free Press. While at Duke University, her sketch “O-Week” appeared on Inside Amy Schumer and contributed to a Writers’ Guild Award-winning season. She later worked for screenwriting duo Lauren Blum and Rebecca Angelo (Business Affairs Productions), pitching ideas for projects including Dumb Money (2023). After graduating, she wrote, directed, and fundraised for her short film The Final Cut (2024).
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