Julia Baird is an award-winning author and journalist, and co-host of the Not Stupid podcast with Jeremy Fernandez. She writes columns for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and the ABC. Her first book, Media Tarts, which was re-released in 2021, was based on her history PhD about the portrayal of female politicians. After moving to the United States to take up a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School, she became a columnist and senior editor at Newsweek.