Max Toomey

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Max Toomey is a full-time video journalist at the Daily Beast where he creates short journalistic films on topics ranging from transgender youth in America to Turkish Star Wars.  Max previously worked at Quartz as a video journalist, as well as for the European Union in Myanmar as a Political, Press, and Information Trainee. Max graduated from Cambridge University with a first in Social Political Sciences and from the Columbia Journalism School, where he specialized in documentary filmmaking. While at Cambridge, Max was the editor of the Tab, where he started the now international student paper's video department. https://www.maxtoomey.com/