California

Amanda Ulrich is a 2016 graduate of Wake Forest University, where she studied communications, journalism and entrepreneurship. During her time as an undergraduate, she developed her passion for...

Carrie Ching is an award-winning independent journalist and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. For six years she led multimedia projects at the Center for Investigative Reporting, where...

Lauren Markham is a writer based in California who covers issues related to migration, climate change, and human rights. Her work regularly appears in outlets such as Harper's, The New York Review of...

Jeanne Carstensen is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The World, The Nation, Salon, Nautilus, and The Global Post, among other outlets. She...

Wes Enzinna's essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, n+1, and the London Review of Books. He's currently a deputy editor of Vice Media, where his documentary...

Ian James is a journalist who writes about water and the environment for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California. He is a member of the newspaper's investigative team, and his work also regularly...

Zachary Slobig, reporter, editor, and radio producer, has covered coastal and environmental issues for Wired, Outside, NPR, PRI, The Los Angeles Times, Take Part, Good Magazine and many others. He...

Cameron Conaway is a recipient of the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative Fellowship and the author of Malaria, Poems (Michigan State University Press), which was named a "Best Book of...

Matt Black is a photographer from California's Central Valley. His work has explored themes of migration, poverty and the environment in his native rural California and in southern Mexico. Recent...

Erika Check Hayden is a reporter for the science journal Nature. She covers biology and medicine, and is deeply interested in infectious disease, genetics and global health. Erika has reported for...