Texas

Niyanta Spelman is the founder and CEO of Rainforest Partnership, a group that works to conserve and restore tropical rainforests.

Christopher Collins is an investigative journalist based in Abilene, Texas. He graduated with a degree in mass communication from Midwestern State University in 2012. He has worked as a reporter at...

Naveena Sadasivam is a staff writer covering the environment, energy, and climate change at Grist. She previously covered environmental issues for The Texas Observer, Inside Climate News, and...

Danielle Villasana is a photojournalist based in her hometown of Houston, Texas, focusing on human rights, gender, displacement, and health throughout the Americas. She’s the 2022 Alexia Grant...

Elias Thompson is a second-year law student at the University of Miami and is an active member of the law school's Race & Social Justice Law Review. While his work with the RSJLR focuses primarily on...

Dana Thompson is a veteran editor in digital and print media. Before coming to the Pulitzer Center, she worked as a copy editor at the (Lexington, Kentucky) Herald-Leader, The Atlanta Journal...

Sarah Warnock is a freelance news and documentary photographer and an Associated Press contributor.

Frank Hernandez is a senior at the University of Texas at El Paso, majoring in philosophy and multimedia journalism. Previously, he reported for Borderzine.com, an online news magazine covering life...

Emily Kinskey is a freelance multimedia journalist based in El Paso, Texas, and Brooklyn, New York. She produces cinematic documentary films that offer an intimate character-driven approach to the...

Anna-Catherine Brigida is a freelance journalist based in Honduras who has reported on migration from the region since 2015. She has covered migrant caravans, deportations, migrant deaths, and family...

Sindya Bhanoo has worked as a reporter for The New York Times, where she was the longtime Observatory columnist, and The Washington Post, where she is still a frequent contributor. Her reporting has...

Originally from the borderland of El Paso, Texas, Chloe Cloud is a first generation and first year student at Texas Christian University. Being a descendent of Mexican and Costa Rican roots, Chloe...