New York

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...

Youyou Zhou is a New York-based freelance data journalist working with graphics and code. She produces data-driven, visual, interactive, and experimental journalism that breaks free of words-based...

Rob Fields is the president and executive director of Weeksville Heritage Center, a Brooklyn-based cultural center and historic house museum. Since his appointment in 2017, he has led the turnaround...

Born and raised in Colombia, Cris Gallo is a motion designer based in Brooklyn, New York. For the past 12 years, he has been involved in the advertisement industry working for individual brands...