New York

Kalli Siringas is a writer and performer from Detroit living and working in NYC. Her work is centered around diet culture, responsible fashion, and most recently ecosystems in the Aegean Sea. She has...

Jaylin Ward, from the Bronx, New York, is an interdisciplinary journalism major in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University. Ward’s undergraduate research focuses on the impact...

A New Yorker with an unconventional background, Valerie Pires has always been interested in underreported stories and how she could best tell them. Following a nontraditional path, Pires worked in...

Kyle Cristello is a current film student and aspiring filmmaker/director who aims to create stories that stem from personal experiences. The end goal of his work is to make it relatable to a multitude...

Adriana Rozas Rivera is a Puerto Rican graduate journalism student at Syracuse University. She is a Newhouse Graduate Minority Newspaper Fellow and a 2021 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow. Rozas...

Mariel Rodriguez-McGill is a video journalist focused on documentary filmmaking with a passion for telling inspirational and compelling stories. Rodriguez-McGill began her career as a producer...

Teresa Cebrián Aranda is a Foreign Affairs Fellow at PBS NewsHour and a Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow alum. Cebrián Aranda began her career as an editor for the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

Annick Laurent is a documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist from New York. Her interests include race and gender relations, culture, and the environment. Laurent is drawn to stories concerning...

Gopika Ajay is a video journalist and a documentary filmmaker from India. She is currently working in the film production industry in Dubai. Ajay received her PGDM in Broadcast Journalism from the...

Tana Ganeva is a reporter covering criminal justice, drug policy, immigration, and politics. She's written for The Washington Post, RollingStone.com, Glamour, Gothamist, VICE, and the Stanford Social...

Maryel Cardenas was formerly the K-12 Education Program Assistant at the Pulitzer Center. Before joining the Pulitzer Center, Cardenas interned at Democracy Now!, a global nonprofit news organization...

Alex Blumberg, an award-winning radio journalist, is the editorial director and co-founder of Gimlet Media. Prior to Gimlet, he was a producer for This American Life and the co-founder of Planet Money...