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Xiaoli Zhou is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and instructor at University of Chicago Laboratory Schools with a strong journalism background. As a native Chinese and a graduate of UC Berkeley...

Dr. Amina Asim is an award-winning media analyst, data scientist, writer and producer. She is an expert in the field of transnational media strategy and digital storytelling. She has a Ph.D. from...

Alex Keefe rejoined WBEZ in February 2017 to coordinate the station's coverage of local, state, and federal government and politics. He first started at WBEZ in 2010 as a producer on Morning Edition...

Angela Rozas O'Toole is a senior editor over government and politics. Previously, she was deputy metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, where she oversaw politics and criminal justice reporting. She...

Katherine Nagasawa is WBEZ's audience engagement producer, which means she helps expand and deepen the newsroom's relationship with its audience through the web and social media. She previously served...

Mariah Woelfel is a general assignment reporter and producer. Prior to WBEZ, Woelfel worked as a reporter, producer and All Things Considered host at WVIK, an NPR member station in western Illinois.

Kristen Schorsch is a reporter on WBEZ's government and politics team, where she covers Cook County and public health. Previously, she covered health care, government, crime, courts, and higher...

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...