Writing
Connective Tissue - “Beyond Bob” (Feb. 2025)
Connective Tissue - “How cities can cultivate a sense of ‘membership’ among their residents” (Feb. 2025)
American Storylines - “Why so many working-class Americans feel left out” (Jan. 2025)
Connective Tissue - “The lies we tell ourselves” (Jan. 2025)
Connective Tissue - “He gave and gave and gave — and asked for nothing in return” (Nov. 2024)
Connective Tissue - “The Civic Homecoming” (Oct. 2024)
American Compass - “From the ‘Great Connector’ to the ‘Great Sorter’” (Sept. 2024)
Connective Tissue - “Left Alone” (August 2024)
Connective Tissue - “Why every town should host an activities fair” (July 2024)
Connective Tissue - “Make it weird” (June 2024)
Connective Tissue - “Why startups will not ‘solve’ loneliness” (March 2024)
Connective Tissue - “Why every town should offer a welcome kit” (Feb. 2024)
Connective Tissue - “How to think structurally about connection within communities” (Jan. 2024)
Connective Tissue - “How we can make Veterans Day less weird” (Nov. 2023)
non-disclosure - “On Vulnerability” (Dec. 2021)
Research
HHFP - “The Privatization of Community Across the Life Course” (Dec. 2022)
HUMOR - “Stand-up comedy as humor training for military populations” (April 2022)
ASAP - “Thriving Through the Arts: A Program Impact Evaluation of ASAP” (Aug. 2020)
Interviews
It's Been a Minute - “Lonely? There’s an app for that. But should there be?” (Feb. 2025)
Reimagining Us Podcast - “Transforming Our Communities” (Feb. 2025)
New_Public - “Knitting society back together: A policy framework for civic renewal” (Oct. 2024)
American Compass Podcast - “The Adulthood Crisis” (Oct. 2024)
Cultivating Connections Podcast - “The Connective Tissue Framework” (Oct. 2024)
A Man’s Work - “Social Connection Policy” (Sept. 2024)
Common Good Podcast - “Commitments, Connections, & Communities” (July 2024)
Loneliness Busters Podcast - “Episode 3: Interview with Sam Pressler” (Nov. 2023)
Vox - “The privatization of community” (May 2023)
POLITICO - “The Millennial Who Uses Comedy to Help Veterans Heal” (July 2018)
Pacific Standard - “Sam Pressler’s Cathartic Comedy” (June 2017)
Media Mentions
Los Angeles Times - “7 LA social clubs for making friends” (Dec. 2024)
The Atlantic - “How The Ivy League Broke America” (Nov. 2024)
The New York Times - “Voters to Elites: Do You See Me Now?” (Nov. 2024)
The Atlantic - “The Friendship Paradox” (Sept. 2024)
The New York Times - “The Loneliness Epidemic Has a Cure” (Sept. 2024)
Deseret - “Dads providing more personal help to kids than in previous generations” (Sept. 2024)
1A - “The Power of Comedy and Storytelling for Veterans” (Nov. 2018)
Washington Post - “For these vets, making people laugh is the best medicine” (March 2016)
CNN - “This Iwo Jima veteran’s moving poetry will help you understand Memorial Day” (May 2015)