Illinois

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...

Stephen Franklin is a former foreign correspondent and labor writer for the Chicago Tribune. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, he has reported from Afghanistan to Peru. He has trained journalists in Egypt...