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Melissa Bunni Elian (b. 1987) is a Haitian-American multimedia journalist based in Yonkers, NY. Since graduating from SUNY Albany in 2010 her work has been published in The Journal News, Propublica...

Sylvia Varnham O'Regan is a New Zealand journalist based in New York, specializing in investigative reporting. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, VICE, Toronto Star and more. In...

Wong Maye-E joined The Associated Press as a staff photographer in 2003. She worked for The Straits Times 2000-2003 in Singapore. She graduated from Temasek Polytechnic's School of Design with a...

Joe Penney is a journalist, photographer, and filmmaker based in New York City. He is the co-founder of the Mali-based news West African regional news website Sahelien.com and was chief photographer...

Sarah Blaskey is a fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting at Columbia Journalism School. This project is being done in partnership with Reveal, from the Center for Investigative...

Natalie Hutchison is a reporter with a fervor for hidden ways of life and the individuals that define them. She graduated with her BA in Communication Studies at California State University...

Janelle Richards is a producer at Nightly News with Lester Holt. She has covered the Pulse Orlando shooting, Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore, the Charleston church shooting and the Amtrak train...

Josephine Holtzman is a Brooklyn-based multimedia producer. Her production work includes everything from NPR Jazz documentaries to a podcast about fried chicken in Pakistan, to interactive climate...

Louie Lazar is a journalist living in New York. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Grantland, and Tablet. His stories are about people, often forgotten or overlooked, who have...

Melissa Noel is an award-winning freelance multimedia journalist in New York City. She is a contributing correspondent for One Caribbean Television, covering major news stories out of the Caribbean...

Ambar Castillo is a Brooklyn-born, Queens-raised writer, actor, and student advisor with a B.A. in Latin American Studies/Journalism from Boston University—and our 2017 LaGuardia Community College...