Illinois

Isabel Dieppa is a journalist based in Chicago. She has contributed reporting on Puerto Rico for the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo de Puerto Rico, The Chicago Reporter, Marie Claire Magazine, and...

Alexis Smith graduated from Harold Washington and Harry S Truman College-City Colleges of Chicago in December 2018. Her love for journalism began in high school as a student journalist with Global...

Brian Munoz is a freelance multimedia journalist and visual storyteller based in southern Illinois. He is a graduate from Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he received his degree in...

Kiran Misra is a freelance journalist reporting as the Pulitzer Center and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ inaugural Richard C. Longworth Media fellow and as a staff writer at South Side Weekly...

Adam Yates is a senior at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Originally from outside Boston, Massachusetts, Adam has loved exploring the city of Chicago. On campus Adam is...

Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois, where he also oversees an online newsroom, CU-CitizenAccess.org. Before coming to Illinois in 2007, he was...

Pam Dempsey is the executive director of the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. She is an award-winning journalist who has done investigative reporting and editing on topics including...

Grace Pateras is a recent the University of Iowa graduate from Buffalo Grove, Illinois. She studied Journalism and Mass Communication and American Studies, and ended her four-year tenure at The Daily...

Timothy McLaughlin is an award-winning contributing writer for The Atlantic and the co-author of Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global...

Ryan Michalesko is a visual journalist currently based out of Southern Illinois. This Carbondale, Illinois native derived his passion for visual storytelling from a young age and decided to further...

Jackie Spinner is an editor at the Gateway Journalism Review, a professor at Columbia College Chicago, and the faculty adviser to The Columbia Chronicle, the school's student-run news publication...