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Luisa Conlon is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based between New York and Los Angeles. Her work has been published with The Atlantic, PBS NewsHour, VICE.com, Vogue, NPR & StoryCorps. Her...

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author most recently of The New York Times bestseller "Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on...

Leslie Tai is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work chronicles the dreams, anxieties, and consumer desire of China's rising middle class, from a distinctly female perspective. Tai is the...

James Pace-Cornsilk is a director of photography and filmmaker based in Oakland, California. He has shot and produced for the National Film Board of Canada, A&E, VICE, and the PBS Newshour. He served...

Daphne Matziaraki is an Oscar-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary film director. She was born in Athens, Greece, and is currently based in Berkeley, California. She lived in Kenya between...

Sawsan Morrar is a student at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, specializing in multimedia. She is a graduate of UC Davis, where she received a BA in International Relations and minored in...

Jim McAuley drives a beat up pick up truck around Berkeley, California, where he works as a photographer. He was raised in Ohio and retains his Midwestern hardiness. His work, which has appeared in...

Originally from Los Angeles, California, Jessie Rowan attends Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida. She will be graduating in spring 2018, majoring in journalism and media production, with...

Peter Tinti is a freelance journalist whose reporting focuses on security, human rights, conflict, and organized crime. Among other outlets, Tinti's writing and photography has been published by...