Beckett is the Chief Operational Officer and founding partner of The Auxiliary, Inc., a civic media company dedicated to fighting public health disinformation.He spent half a decade as a top-trafficked reporter and cultural critic for VICE and holds a certificate in reporting from the Poynter Institute. His work championed underrepresented voices and created space for visionary thinkers to debut their ideas. He’s been cited by outlets as diverse as The Daily Mail, Pew, and Wikipedia. As a marketing professional, his clients have included brands as diverse as Intel, Espolón, Facebook Watch, Showtime, HBO, and Spotify. He left a role as the in-house marketing copywriter for the video chat company Airtime in to help start The Auxiliary. Blue check on Twitter and Instagram.