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Kiley Huang is a senior at Kirkwood High School in Kirkwood, Missouri. She is the editor-in-chief of the school's student newspaper, The Kirkwood Call, vice president of the START Club and KH Choirs...

Sarah Almukhtar is a designer and journalist. She worked for The New York Times from 2015 to 2024, where she designed visual stories about the news using data, mapping, and multimedia. Her...

Susanna Granieri is a researcher and reporter for First Amendment Watch, a nonprofit newsroom housed at New York University. Her past internships include writing for the Legislative Gazette, an Albany...

Sam Rabiyah is a journalist and multidisciplinary technologist based in New York. He works at the intersection of investigative reporting, counter-mapping, data visualization, and oral history to make...

Zara Shamim is studying public health science at the University of Maryland.

Afeef Nessouli is a journalist and host of __With Afeef Nessouli. He previously worked for Spotify, The Wall Street Journal's daily news podcast "The Journal," and "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah."...

Steven W. Thrasher is the the inaugural Daniel Renberg Chair of social justice in reporting at Northwestern University, the first journalism professorship in the world to focus on LGBTQ research. He...

Gaige Davila is a freelance journalist in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, reporting on various topics regarding the environment, politics, and immigration.

Abby Young is a senior reporter at the OU Daily at the University of Oklahoma. Young is from Owasso, Oklahoma.

Bora Erden is a reporter for The New York Times focused on using new technologies for multimedia investigative journalism. Before joining The Times, he worked as a researcher at SITU Research...

Jason Gulley is a freelance photojournalist specializing in documenting science, the environment, and the underwater world. His work has been featured in National Geographic, The New York Times, GEO...