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Krithika Varagur is a journalist, speechwriter, and author who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Varagur has reported widely from Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Balkans. She is the author of The Call...

Apoorva Mandavilli is an award-winning science journalist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker online, The Atlantic, Slate, Nature and others. She is also the founding editor...

A graduate of the University of Georgia and former political consultant and speechwriter, Wes Bruer began his journalism career as a freelancer in Cairo at the height of the Egyptian revolution...

Howard French was a foreign correspondent and senior writer for The New York Times for over two decades, working in Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and Korea, and...

Noah Fowler is a freelance director of photography and videographer based out of New York City. A graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, he has shot documentary and journalism work...

Francesca Trianni is a staff video journalist for TIME Magazine based in New York. She has contributed to many of TIME's most important stories in the past three years, including features for Person...

Nick McDonell is a novelist and journalist. Born in New York City, he studied at Harvard and St. Antony’s College, Oxford. His work has been published in 23 countries and appeared on bestseller lists...

James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war...

Sophie Pinkham has written about Russian and Ukrainian culture and politics for The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, and other publications. From 2005-2011 she worked in international public...

Rachel Nuwer is a New York-based freelance journalist who writes about science, travel and adventure for outlets such as The New York Times, Scientific American, and National Geographic. She holds a...

Editors note: We were shocked and saddened to learn of the death of our colleague and recent grantee Kim Wall, who disappeared August 10, 2017. Please read the full tribute to her here. Kim Wall was...