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Tahir Amin, LL.B., Dip. LP., is an attorney with more than 25 years of experience in intellectual property (IP) law. He practiced as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales with two of...

Andrew W. Lehren is a senior editor on the NBC News investigations team. He has reported on the pandemic and economic relief efforts, and led work on five International Consortium of Investigative...

March 5, 2021

Called a "gifted storyteller and deep thinker" by The New York Times, Steven Johnson is a leading authority on innovation, whose books, podcasts, and television series have explored the stories of...

Linda Villarosa is a journalist, author, editor, novelist and educator. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where she covers race, inequality and health. Most recently she...

Phineas Rueckert is an investigative reporter at Forbidden Stories. He previously led the education beat at Global Citizen and has covered criminal justice in Queens, New York.

Asena Tui’one, raised by two immigrant parents from the island of Tonga, identified education as her ticket to success early in life. Her experiences as a first-generation college graduate inspired...

Eléonore "Léo" Hamelin is a journalist and filmmaker based in New York who creates immersive and intimate documentaries. She currently creates short docs for Brut America, and was previously at Blue...

Katie Rose Quandt is a freelance journalist who writes about criminal justice, incarceration, and inequality. She is a staff writer and editor at Solitary Watch, and previously worked at Mother Jones...

Jean Casella is co-director of Solitary Watch, a web-based watchdog project that investigates and documents the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. Since its founding in 2009...

Justine van der Leun is an independent journalist and a fellow at Type Media Center. Her features have been published in The New York Review of Books, Harper's, the Guardian, GEN magazine, VQR...

Bonnie Bertram is a senior producer at Retro Report, where she has reported on a range of subjects. Her short film on vaccine hesitancy, distributed in partnership with The New York Times, was...

Joana Toro is a self-taught Colombian photographer based in New York City and Bogotá, Colombia. Her work explores issues of immigration, human rights, and identity and has been featured in The New...