California

Jaeah is an independent journalist in San Francisco and an inaugural recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize. Her story "After the Shooting" won the 2018 PEN America Los Angeles Literary...

Tyrone Beason is a currently a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he was a Seattle Times columnist and Pacific NW magazine reporter. He has covered a variety of beats but has always...

Carly is a graduate student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where she specializes in social justice and investigative reporting. She's written stories on food security...

Daniel Merino cut his scientific teeth dodging angry elephant seals and snorkeling with salmon on the California coast. He has turned his love of science to a love of science journalism where he...

A Los Angeles native, Angèlica Ekeke completed her degree in photojournalism and women and gender studies at San Francisco State University. She uses her love for art, texture, beauty, and film to...

Sarah Shourd is a trauma-informed investigative journalist, playwright, and 2019 Stanford JSK Knight fellow. For the last 12 years her work has focused on exposing the impact of mass incarceration and...

Steve Johnson is a photojournalist, technologist, professor, and entrepreneur leading the charge in immersive storytelling across news organizations, non-profits and universities. His company...

Omar Ornelas is a Mexican photojournalist based in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. He has been reporting on and photographing farmworker labor, education, health and housing issues in California, Texas, and...

Rebecca Plevin is the immigration reporter for the Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs, Calif., part of the USA TODAY Network. She previously worked as a health reporter for KPCC, the NPR affiliate...

James Pogue is the author of Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West. He has written for Vanity Fair, The New York Times, the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and Harper's, where he is a...

Justin Maxon was born and raised in a number of small towns in the woods of northern California, where he grew up part-time on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. As a photographer, writer, and film...

A San Francisco native, Brian L. Frank has worked on social documentary projects across the Americas, focusing on cultural identity, social inequality, violence, workers rights, and the environment...