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May Jeong spent the past five years reporting on Afghanistan, and is best known for her months-long investigation into the MSF hospital bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan for The Intercept. This won the...

George Black is a New York City-based writer specializing in international affairs and the environment. Born in Scotland, he has a master's degree in modern languages and literature from the...

Brent Renaud (left) and his brother Craig Renaud are Peabody Award winning documentary filmmakers, television producers, and film programmers living and working in New York City and Little Rock...

Helen C. Epstein is visiting professor of human rights and global public health at Bard College. She is the author of Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda and the War on Terror (Columbia Global Reports...

Betsy Saavedra is a bilingual reporter based in Westchester County. She is a SUNY Westchester Community College journalism graduate interested in in-depth coverage of race, poverty and immigration...

Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist. They are a contributing opinion writer to the New York Times and a frequent contributor to New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The...

Rodrigue Anathasse Ossebi is a student at LaGuardia Community College, studying liberal arts and electrical engineering. He immigrated to the United States from the Republic of Congo in June 2010 and...

Katie Orlinsky is a photographer from New York City. She received a bachelors degree in political science and Latin American studies from Colorado College and a masters degree in journalism from...

Benedict Moran is a freelance journalist and filmmaker currently based in New York City. He specializes in conflict, diplomacy, and international development. Prior to becoming a journalist, he worked...

John Fitzgerald is an independent film director, cinematographer, and animator whose films have screened at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Berlinale Talents, and the Rotterdam International Film...

Brian Castner is a nonfiction writer, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer, and veteran of the Iraq War. He is the bestselling author of All the Ways We Kill and Die, and the war memoir The Long...

Sarah Weiser is a reporter and documentary photographer with Retro Report, a video news organization that seeks to tell the stories of today through the lens of the recent past that shaped them...