Illinois

Olivia is a senior at Loyola University Chicago, majoring in health systems management, with a minor in marketing. Her interest in international research began when she took her first medical/dental...

M. Sophia Newman is a health journalist from Chicago. She launched her journalism career in 2013, while on a Fulbright fellowship to Bangladesh. Her achievements include a 2014 Shannon Fellowship from...

James O'Shea is a veteran journalist, author and editor with broad and deep experience in journalism. He was editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times and managing editor of the...

Luke Nozicka is a sophomore studying journalism at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is a reporter for SIU's student-run newspaper, The Daily Egyptian, covering administration, police and...

Spike photographs in the documentary style, exploring themes of social conflict that lie at the edges of the human experience. In the past his projects have received funding from the Fund for...

Robert Eric Shoemaker is a Chicago-based journalist, poet-playwright, and theatre-maker. Eric's writing has been featured in Newcity, Memoryhouse Magazine, and the Chicago After Dark anthology. Eric's...

Jessica is currently pursuing a masters of fine arts at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Her research interests are related to the impact skin bleaching and the media representations that...

Jon Lowenstein has been a professional photographer for more than ten years. He specializes in long-term, in-depth projects that confront the realms of power, poverty, and violence. As a documentary...

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein is the database and investigative editor at Hoy, the Chicago Tribune's Spanish-language newspaper, and is immediate past president of the Ochberg Society, an international...

Linda Qiu is a rising fourth-year at the University of Chicago, majoring in environmental studies and minoring in creative writing. She is a former news editor for The Chicago Maroon, the university's...

Steve Matzker is a photographer living in southern Illinois. With a focus on community based journalism, Steve believes local stories are as important, and often just as exotic, as those found in...

Shirley is a rising senior at Loyola University Chicago focusing on international relations, journalism and Latin American studies. She studied journalism last spring in Chile and is excited to have...