Grayson Quay is an editorial associate at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His writing has been published in The American Conservative, Reason, the Washington Examiner, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the National Interest, and the Spectator US. He is also the host of the podcast and YouTube channel The Bench. Before joining Mercatus, Grayson worked as a high school teacher. He earned his MA in English from Georgetown University in 2019.