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Michaela Vatcheva is a Turkish-Bulgarian-American documentary filmmaker and student at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. As a researcher for the Investigative Reporting Program, a UC Berkeley...

Julia Knoerr is an independent journalist based in Washington, D.C., with an interest in migration, health, and environmental justice issues. She currently works on the South America team at Internews...

Megan Botel is a Bay Area native and journalism master's student at the University of Southern California, where she focused on text and radio reporting about health, religion, and the environment. At...

Hayley Smith is a Los Angeles-based journalist covering breaking news and enterprise stories at the Los Angeles Times. Her freelance work has been featured in Vogue, HuffPost, and several other...

Chace Beech is a multimedia journalist from Los Angeles. In 2016 she graduated from Kenyon College, where she majored in English. Moving to New York, Chace joined the NBC Page Program where she wore...

Dustin is a 32-year-old Marine Corps veteran and filmmaker. His tours in the Marine Corps brought him to Iraq in 2008 and Afghanistan in 2009. After receiving an honorable discharge in 2011, Dustin...

Geoff McGhee specializes in interactive data visualization and multimedia storytelling. He is a veteran of the multimedia and infographics staffs at The New York Times, Le Monde and ABCNews.com...

Michael Montgomery is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. A veteran of radio/podcasts, television, and newspapers, Montgomery has led major...

Jack Brook is an associate editor with CamboJA News and a freelance journalist based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He was previously a staff writer at the Southeast Asia Globe, and his reporting has been...

Michaela Haas is an award-winning author of four non-fiction books, including Bouncing Forward: The Art and Science of Cultivating Resilience (Atria). Her reporting has appeared in national and...

Nithin Coca is a Asia-focused freelance journalist who covers climate, environment, and supply chains across the region. His features have appeared in outlets in North America, Asia, and Europe...

Greg has spent more that 20 years covering events throughout the Americas and the world for the AP. Previously based in Mexico City, New York, and along Mexico's border with the U.S., he now works out...