Ohio

Eric J. Zgodzinski has been working in public health for over 28 years. His career started in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, as a sanitarian working for the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. He obtained his...

Bill Harris became the first African American television news reporter in Toledo, Ohio, working for Channel 13, then an NBC affiliate, for more than two decades. Public affairs duties were added to...

Eli Hiller is an independent documentary filmmaker and photographer who pursues stories that seek to humanize marginalized communities. He approaches stories with a conscious perspective on how...

Julia Lerner is a second-year graduate student at UMD from central Ohio. As an undergraduate at Philip Merrill, she pursued a degree in multiplatform journalism with a minor in rhetoric, studying...

In 2019, Caitlin Hunt was named one of just ten fellows at Native American Journalists Association. Hunt is from Canton, Ohio, and a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

Areeba Shah is a recent graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism where she pursued a MSJ with a focus in Social Justice and Investigative Reporting. Shah traveled to South Carolina for a...

Zora Raglow-DeFranco was awarded a 2020 Squire Patton Boggs Foundation Public Policy Fellowship and served as a summer 2020 legal fellow at the Pulitzer Center. She is a juris doctor and masters in...

Lucia Walinchus is an award-winning journalist, author and ice hockey addict. She has written more than 500 articles for various publications throughout her career and was named a 2016 Fulbright...

Olivia Watson is a graduate student at Kent State University working on her Master of Arts in Communication Studies. Her academic research interests include identity, adoption and intercultural...