Vinay Kolhatkar is a freelance journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and finance professional. Vinay is the Chief Editor of The Savvy Street.

His aesthetic work has appeared in the literary magazine The Missing Slate and the peer-reviewed journal Reason Papers, and his finance essays have been published by the Australian Securitisation Journal, Firstlinks, and JASSA.

He has two masters degrees from UNSW: in finance, and in journalism with High Distinction.

He has also penned a TV pilot screenplay Undercover: The Story of Jamila, and two literary thrillers A Sharia London and The Frankenstein Candidate.. He is also the co-author of Media Wars: The Battle to Shape Our Minds. More about Vinay is at the Founder page.

More about Vinay is at the Founder page.

 Walter Donway is Savvy Street’s Roving Editor with more than 50 articles on the site. He is the author of four novels, two books of poetry, two memoirs, and a collection of essays and short stories. His most recent books are “Donald Trump and His Enemies: How the Media Put Trump in Office” and “Not Half Free: They Myth that America is Capitalist.” All are published by Romantic Revolution Books and available on Amazon. Walter has been a lifelong advocate of the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and was among the first trustees of the Atlas Society and editor of its first publication. He and his wife, Robin, live in New York.

Donna F. Paris, a contributing editor to Savvy Street, is a freelance copyeditor and proofreader of non-fiction and fiction books, poetry volumes, and blog posts. As a retired CPA, she also has an extensive business background. Ms. Paris holds a B.A. degree in English (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Connecticut, USA, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi, and a B.S. degree in Accounting (Summa Cum Laude) from Post College in Connecticut, where she was elected to Alpha Chi.

Roger E. Bissell, a contributing editor to Savvy Street, is an independent scholar and professional musician living in Dickson, Tennessee. He has a B.S. in music theory and composition (Iowa State University, 1970) and an M.A. in music performance and literature (University of Iowa, 1971), and CDs featuring his trombone, vocals, composing, arranging, and songwriting are available on Amazon. Roger has also published numerous scholarly essays in philosophy and psychology in various peer-reviewed journals including Reason Papers and The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies–as well as four books, including How the Martians Discovered Algebra: Explorations in Induction and the Philosophy of Mathematics (2014) and What’s in Your File Folder? Essays on the Nature and Logic of Propositions (2019), also available on Amazon. His most recent publications include an essay, “Triumph and Tragedy in the Great American Songbook,” included in The Dialectics of Liberty: Exploring the Context of Human Freedom, which he co-edited with Chris Matthew Sciabarra and Edward W. Younkins (Lexington, 2019); and Modernizing Aristotle’s Ethics: Toward a New Art and Science of Self-Actualization, which he co-authored with Vinay Kolhatkar (Ethics International Press, 2023). More of his writings can be found on his personal web site: The Personal Site of Roger Bissell, the Muse-Seeker. In addition to his position with the Savvy Street, Roger is currently the music advisor for the ART foundation and a research associate with the Molinari Institute.