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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
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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
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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
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    Sarah Swan

    Sarah Swan is the director of communications and audience engagement at the Pulitzer Center. Before joining the Center, she worked as an Account Director at Media Cause, where she led cross-functional...

    November 3, 2021
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    Brett Simpson

    Brett Simpson is an audio and print journalist covering the intersections of health, the environment, and human rights. She is a 2021 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School...

    June 2, 2021
  • David Barstow
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    David Barstow

    Reva and David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Journalism, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

    May 14, 2021
  • Meiying Wu
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    Meiying Wu

    Visual journalist and former Investigative Reporting Project student reporter

    May 14, 2021