Xavier Harding was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Gettysburg College, he worked at International Business Times/Newsweek as a tech and gaming reporter. From there he went onto Popular Science. As tech editor of Popular Science’s Now section, he continued to write about gadgets and the companies that make them, both in print and on the web. After Popular Science came Mic, where he was able to write culture stories pertaining to race/inclusion, the tech industry and user privacy online. Now Xavier writes for The Markup, where he focuses on user privacy and the tech industry’s larger effect on society. Gettysburg interviewed the grad in 2017 for a magazine profile about his experiences working in journalism. In 2018, he and a few coworkers won some Webby awards. That was cool.