Shaan Merchant
Trustee
Shaan Merchant is a proud graduate of Linden Waldorf School, class of 2011. He currently lives in New York City, where he works as a journalist and researcher. He writes about culture, media, food and travel, with bylines in The New York Times, Slate, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Oxford American. He has supported research and production at several audio and TV institutions, including Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, WNYC's On the Media, and Search Engine with PJ Vogt. He is the author of Survivor Legends (W.W. Norton/Countryman Press; May 2026), a book of profiles tracing the evolution of performance and strategy on reality television's most influential show.
