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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...

Peg Tyre has written two books on education, one of which, "The Trouble With Boys," was a New York Times best-seller and the other, "The Good School," is being used in journalism schools around the...

Scott Anderson is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He is the author, most recently, of Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East...

Bruno Federico is an Italian filmmaker and cinematographer based in New York City, after a decade in Colombia, where he started making independent documentaries in 2010. He regularly shoots for PBS...

David Gauvey Herbert is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer covering crime and security for Businessweek and Quartz. He has written about the rise of Uganda's mercenary export industry, Chinese...