Illinois

Mitchell Armentrout is a staff reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, covering government and politics from Chicago to Springfield, Illinois. He’s also a weekend and fill-in assistant city editor.

Kate Arthur is a writer for Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, where she finds and tells stories of some of its 21,000 students, faculty, and alumni. Arthur is an advocate for...

Stephanie Gadlin is a writer and activist.

Emanuella Evans is a multimedia journalist graduating from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in spring 2021. She has previously reported on institutional injustices present in the...

Imran Mohammad Fazal Hoque is a stateless Rohingya refugee from Myanmar. He is in his third year, majoring in social work and journalism at Buffalo State University of New York. As a refugee, he made...

Zainab Ahmed is a recent graduate from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago where she studied new arts journalism. Her work focuses on art developed under conflict zones. Her Pulitzer Center...

Lucia Geng is a rising senior at the University of Chicago majoring in political science and minoring in human rights and Arabic. She is particularly interested in elevating the voices and narratives...

Angel Chevrestt is a second year MS student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale studying multimedia journalism. Before arriving at SIU, Chevrestt was based in New York City where he worked as a...

Director of Journalism and Media, MacArthur Foundation

Kallie Cox covers public safety for the Charlotte Observer. Cox studied political science and international relations, and journalism at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Isabel Miller is a photojournalist based in southern Illinois and will be attending Medill's graduate program in summer 2021. She graduated with a degree in photojournalism from Southern Illinois...