Illinois

Becky Vevea is a political reporter for Chicago's WBEZ. She covers City Council, the mayor, and the many departments that determine how the city functions. Prior to covering politics, she covered...

Natalie Y. Moore is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago. Her reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice, and violence. Moore’s acclaimed book The South Side: A...

Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH currently serves as the chief health equity officer and group vice president for the American Medical Association (AMA), where she focuses on embedding health equity across all...

Silvia Martelli is a fellow at BBC, where she covers the U.S. presidential election. She is a recent graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, where she pursued a MSJ with a focus in...

Noreen Nasir is a video journalist with The Associated Press Race & Ethnicity team and is based in New York. Her reporting focuses on stories about racial disparities and injustice in the U.S. In 2020...

Sarah Cahalan is a magazine writer and editor originally from northern Indiana. She earned her master's this fall from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, and she currently works as a news...

Aishwarya Airy is a recent graduate from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where she specialized in covering politics and foreign affairs. While at Medill, she focused her...

Daniel Ronan is an arts, culture, and heritage professional based in Chicago where he is the Principal of his own firm, Resilient Heritage. He brings a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector...

Elena Bruess is a multimedia journalist and writer specializing in the nexus of the environment, health and human rights. She is a recent MSJ graduate of the Medill School of Journalism where she...

Heather Schlitz is a Dow Jones Business Reporting Intern and a senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she studies journalism, global studies and East Asian languages and...

Jody-Ann Douglas was born and raised in Jamaica. She is currently in her second year of studies at Harry S Truman College, which is part City Colleges of Chicago, where she is majoring in Criminal...

Dayanna Kemp was born and raised on the north side of Chicago. She is a second-year student at Harry S Truman College—one of the City Colleges of Chicago, where she actively participates in student...