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    Matt Simon

    Matt Simon is a senior writer who covers climate solutions at Grist. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at Wired magazine. He’s the author of three books, including A Poison Like No Other: How...

    March 27, 2025
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    Rachel Parsons is a writer, multimedia journalist, photographer, and videographer. Her work focuses on climate, the environment, and anthropological intersections. Parsons' work has been published in...

    October 11, 2024
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    Ben Rein

    Ben Rein is a postdoctoral scholar in neuroscience at Stanford University. Rein is studying the neural basis of empathy and how drugs such as MDMA act in the brain to enhance social connection. His...

    December 14, 2023
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    Dana Amihere

    Dana Amihere is a designer, developer, and data journalist. She left conventional newsrooms in 2021 to start Code Black Media, a digital media consultancy at the intersection of data, design, and...

    December 13, 2023
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    Elizabeth Svoboda writes on topics from creationist biology classes in Galápagos schools to the connections between suffering and selflessness. She is the author of What Makes a Hero? (2013) and, for...

    November 9, 2023
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    Clara Germani

    Clara Germani manages projects and coaches writing at The Christian Science Monitor. She has had bureau assignments with the Monitor in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and South America. She was also...

    November 6, 2023
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    Bernice Yeung

    Bernice Yeung is the managing editor of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program and a former ProPublica reporter. Her first book, In a...

    October 18, 2023
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    Nikki Jones

    Nikki Jones is a professor and the H. Michael and Jeanne Williams department chair of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Jones is the author of Between Good and Ghetto...

    October 18, 2023
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    Graph Massara

    Graph Massara is the editor of the Transgender Journalists Association's stylebook. He was most recently a fact-checker with the Associated Press, where he also contributed to the AP Stylebook's...

    June 26, 2023
  • Vickie Vértiz headshot
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    Vickie Vértiz is an award-winning poet, writer, educator, and advocate. The oldest child of an immigrant Mexican family, Vértiz was born and raised in Bell Gardens, California, a city in southeast Los...

    March 7, 2023
  • Marie Baronnet headshot
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    Marie Baronnet studied art and photography in France, where she grew up. She worked as a photojournalist for international magazines, along with a series of investigative photos and video from the...

    December 16, 2022
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    Robin Meadows

    Robin Meadows is an independent science journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area who specializes in water, climate resilience, and environmental policy. Her work has been published in Bay Area...

    November 18, 2022